According to a recent Fox News article, data from the Treasury Department shows that the United States national debt has surpassed $36 trillion. That landmark number comes just a couple months after the U.S. surpassed the $35 trillion mark. That number is significantly higher than four decades ago, where the national debt was approximately...
According to Reuters, President elect Donald Trump has pledged on the campaign trail that he would carry out "the largest deportation" in American history. Now that he has won, I am going to analyze the potential positive and negative economic impacts that the deportations could have. From an economic perspective, the proposed mass deportation plan...
*Note: This post will look at tariffs in an apolitical way, examining both the positives and negatives of them.
The Texas Tribune recently reported on a major teaching scandal in Harris County (Link to Article). Vincent Grayson, the longtime boy's basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High school, was running a scheme in which teachers could pay a $2,500 fee to cheat on their licensing exams. Over the course of the last four years, approximately 400...