By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Renewable energy can come in many different forms and methods of energy manufacturing. Some of the most common include Solar, energy from the sun; Wind, utilizing turbines to channel wind; and Geothermal energy, energy from hot water and Earth. Some benefits of these types of energies is that they don’t release...Read More

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.” This famous Adam Smith quote from The Wealth of Nations truly sums up the whole of Smith’s philosophy on...Read More

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. The Story Prior to the industrial revolution, the economic theory of the day was “mercantilism”. This theory posited that trade was a zero sum game – that is, for me and my country to get wealthier, it was necessary that we had to steal the wealth from somewhere...Read More

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview While people are focused on trading stocks and turning a profit, they often ignore the key concept of investing: owning a stake in a company. However, it is reasonable as to why investors and traders ignore this concept since almost no individual investors have the capital to...Read More

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview All transactions are based on the assumption of one thing: trust. When buying something off Amazon, you’re trusting the seller to deliver the product you buy. If you don’t receive something satisfactory, Amazon has customer service that will support you. Without the trust in Amazon to get...Read More

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Historians believe the creation of writing was to document financial transactions and debt, dating back several centuries. So if recording financial transactions was so important that it was necessary to invent writing, we should learn to manage our finances! Today, we’ll be examining one specific aspect of...Read More