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  • Icarus: Plight of the Bitcoin Investor

    BY ARI MOSES One Saturday afternoon in 2009, a group of tech-savvy friends and colleagues were talking about how they could revolutionize the technology world. After much debate, they finally decided on creating a crypto currency with layered encryption, untraceable e-addresses, and open sources, all the while being unregulated by any monetary regulatory institution. It…

  • The Gift of Capital: The Rise of Eastern Investment or the Fall of an Economic Order

    BY ARI MOSES While Western banking institutions have traditionally dominated global commerce, Middle and Far Eastern nations are catching up as they develop stable economies with international presence. The rapid economic growth of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations, especially China, has recently enabled emerging powers to support struggling nations throughout the Eurozone and in…

  • In God we Doubt

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” While the United States was founded on this two-fold principle of freedom of religion and freedom from religion, it did not keep the religious right from gaining influence over public policy during the early years of the Cold War.…

  • India Seems Impressed, How About Everyone Else?

    Almost a week later—and at least a world away—it looks as if things are turning slightly sunnier for Team Obama. The President’s brief hiatus in India seems to be treating him kindly, even if the midterms didn’t. This is, as has been incessantly mentioned, the most time Obama has spent in a foreign country since…