Bookmarks and Bullshit
a glimpse into my perspective of the world
This blog is dedicated to those navigating the tumultuous waters of their twenties – a decade of self-discovery, growth, and exploration.
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Travel Diaries: Krakow, Poland
Poland sounds like a deviation from reality for most – a faraway film location at best. Before going, we had little to no reference point to help guide us and shape our expectations for this new country, its history, and its current thriving culture. By the time we boarded the plane back home, we were
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The Curse of Low Interest Rates
In this paper, the role of banks and economic cycles will first be defined to provide crucial background information, laying the foundation for our understanding of doom loops. It will subsequently make an argument that low interest rates are the primary driver of doom loops and retail banking regulation should be directly targeted to reduce
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Do Earnings Affect Obesity?
This paper estimates the effect of earnings per capita on adult obesity rates in 50 U.S. states from 2010-2020. Since the prevalence of obesity within populations is often associated with economic affluence, we seek to estimate the strength of the empirically observed relationship between a state’s earnings per capita and adult obesity rates. We take
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Climate Protocols of the UN
The United Nations has been the most active international institution in the realm of climate policy. For this reason, I will first illustrate why climate change is such a complex problem to solve, then examine three of the UN’s major protocols in an attempt to explain the extent and conditions it has prevented environmental degradation.
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