University of Wisconsin–Madison

Trading War or Trading Threats?

| Stephen Steiner | May 1st, 2018 | Last month, the Trump administration announced steel and aluminum tariffs in an effort to protect the domestic steel and aluminum industries from falling steel prices across the globe. While the tariffs have been levied on imports from the majority of countries, the target is largely China. They …

Regulating the Attention Economy

| Daryl Wang | May 1st, 2018 | What is something that everyone of us has with only a finite amount each day regardless of our wealth? If you think the answer is time then you are close, but not quite right. Time does not really belong to us, it passes whether we want it …

The Trump-China Faceoff on Tariffs

| Luke Geistlinger | April 26th, 2018 | Since Donald Trump began his campaign for President, he has taken an aggressive stance towards China by leveling accusations of job theft and disparaging America’s trade deficit with the People’s Republic. For American foreign policy hawks, this is a good thing; China is the world’s only other …

Student Loan Debt – Opinions, Issues, and Solutions

| Zach Swaziek | March 30th, 2018 | In the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, candidate Bernie Sanders ignited a fire in students around the U.S. Most notably, Sanders ran on the platform of making college debt free. While this may be unrealistic in the current political environment, the idea gained a lot of traction and …

Increased Access to Biologics the Next Step in Reducing Healthcare Costs?

| Megan Elmes | March 13th, 2018 | By now it’s clear that healthcare costs in the United States are soaring with no expected reduction coming anytime soon. In 2015, we spent $9,990 per capita on healthcare, more than double the OECD median. To start controlling this spending, there has been a dramatic transition from …

Unions, the Supreme Court, and the Free-Rider Problem

| Ian de Wet | March 4, 2018 | As union membership across the public and private sectors continues to decline in the United States, the Supreme Court recently began hearing arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a potential landmark case that will determine the fate of public-sector unions. The case centers around Mark Janus, a …

The Threat of Big Tech

| Stephen Steiner | February 26, 2018 | At the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, regulation of the technology industry took the fore; world leaders and leaders of other industries warned of the dangers they pose not only to the integrity of the global economy, but also to global security over …

A Practical Infrastructure Plan

| Daryl Wang | February 26, 2018 | A major criticism on the Trump administration’s new infrastructure plan is that the government is not spending enough. The federal government itself is only spending 200 billion dollars on this 1.5 trillion dollar stimulus package, while the remaining trillion dollars is expected to come from private investors …

Why the Latest Stock Crash Should Not Matter to Policymakers

| By Jason Geissler | February 26, 2018 | When the Dow Jones falls 1,175 points in one day—the largest single-day drop in history—people are going to ask: what happened? A myriad of explanations has emerged as to just what could have caused the crash, such as this reasonable argument supporting that this is a …

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