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Despite years of promise and billions of dollars invested in developing a high-speed rail system that rivals Japan’s, the California high-speed rail project stalls. In contrast, Florida’s Brightline project between Miami and Orlando has proven that developing pragmatic high-speed rail between two major American cities is possible. The difference between the two is clear: Bureaucracy.Continue Reading

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As a new mayor takes over and the AI industry booms, many businesses that were relocating their offices out of San Francisco to the South are once again finding the Bay Area a place of opportunity. The result is a slow re-emergence of the San Francisco real estate market while Austin begins to dry up. Continue Reading

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When you pick up medication at the drugstore, intuitively you might think that the cost of the drug is what you’re paying for. But you are not merely paying for the R&D and manufacturing costs; there is a complex system of middlemen that hike up the price of virtually every drug in the US market.Continue Reading

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What makes US healthcare so expensive? Our neighbor in the north may serve some answers. While Canada and the US share similar backgrounds in culture, language, and economies, Canada’s universal healthcare system cuts healthcare prices in half compared to the US, and still outperforms the US in life expectancy and overall health.Continue Reading

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Author: Lucy Cox, Graphics: Danielle Hwang The BRB Bottomline: Tariffs are the hot topic of economic policy this election, with both sides embracing protectionist tariff policy. But do Americans fully understand the real-life implications of tariffs? When presented with the possibility of a tariff on blue jeans, a staple pieceContinue Reading

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Despite the political backlash and uncertainty for the macroeconomy brought upon by their plan, the Biden Administration remains steadfast in its argument that it is a vital step for Americans in the ultimate goal of solving the student debt crisis. Moreover, they believe it to be an efficient and sustainable solution — they maintain that because of the high default rates for student loans, the actual cost of the debt forgiveness plan will be lower than the theoretical expectation; however, the specifics of that value have proven to be difficult to calculate. Continue Reading