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The Duality of Sinn Féin: The Past, Present, and Future of Ireland’s Rising Political Party
In a few years, the Republic of Ireland’s next elections will be held. In the 2016 election the up-and-coming Sinn Féin party, headed by...
Jan 30, 202325 min read

The Middle-Class Case for Student Debt Forgiveness
U.S. President Biden sent shockwaves after he announced his plan to forgive university student loans. Many student debt holders were...
Aug 26, 20227 min read

The Rise and Fall of the Celtic Tiger
The Rise What was the Celtic Tiger? It was a period of economic development and growth in the 1990s that had an impact on Irish society...
Jun 12, 202224 min read

Irish Industrialization For The 21st Century: A 10 Point National Development Plan
By Angela Nagle and Peter Ryan In the living memory of many Irish people today, prosperity is associated with economic globalisation and...
Jan 31, 20229 min read

What If The Multinationals Leave Ireland?
By Angela Nagle and Peter Ryan After the Irish government was recently forced to accept a 15% global minimum tax rate reform led by the...
Dec 16, 20215 min read

Bitcoin’s Miner Fee Crisis Explained: A Reply To Joe Weisenthal
Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal permitted the fintwitterati to discuss Bitcoin’s existential problem: no one is using it. What exactly does he...
Oct 12, 202111 min read

Irish Anti-Imperialist and Nationalist Economics
This dissertation was submitted in part fulfilment of the Master of Arts in History in July 2021 for University College Dublin. Read the...
Aug 6, 202165 min read

Bitcoin's Third Rail: The Code is Controlled
"Digital gold" is the prevailing definition of bitcoin. Bitcoin is suggested to be preferable because it is a commodity immune from human...
May 21, 20214 min read

Anti-Imperialist Economics: An Irish Perspective
The turn of the 20th century saw global revolutionary struggles to emancipate subjugated peoples from imperial forces. These struggles...
May 7, 202121 min read

Global History’s Identity Crisis
Global history is unique because it offers a new perspective. The observations of global connections and a global world are processes...
Jan 10, 202116 min read

Dangers of American Finance: Irish Revolutionary Attitudes Toward International Finance
The Irish revolutionaries’ passion for political sovereignty integrated economic theories and practical application. The independence of...
Dec 28, 202022 min read

Review of Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton
Yoga is a global popular phenomenon. The United Nations officially recognizes an annual celebration promoting yoga. Indian government...
Nov 11, 20209 min read


A Classical Economic Riff of Class for Modern Times
The structure of economic production and distribution has been understood through class divisions since the fledgling formation of economics
Jan 18, 20204 min read

Iranian Trade and Conflict: An Economic Analysis
How would Iran deal with stronger economic isolation and reduced geographic mobility imposed by a U.S. war?
Jan 13, 202016 min read

Central Bank Digital Currency: A Provocation of a Paradigm
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) has the potential to fundamentally alter our conception of the entire financial system.
Jan 5, 20209 min read


Leaving Crypto
A few years ago I stumbled upon a fascinating movement. I only became more and more enthralled with the promise of technological means for p
Oct 16, 20191 min read


But Who Tho? — A Reply to “The Consent of the Governed” by Paul Sztorc
In his essay “The Consent of the Governed”, Sztorc indicates the primary problem of governance is consent measurement. This is a valid issue
Oct 1, 20194 min read


Interview: ‘Avoid Biased Calculations’ Says Crypto Researcher After Cherry-Picked Chart Debate
In response to Voell’s tweet and chart, the researcher from Ryan Research, Peter Ryan, asked the Messari analyst why he didn’t use year-to-d
Sep 8, 20194 min read

It’s Halvening: An Analysis of Bitcoin Miner Revenue
All versions of Bitcoin will experience a 50% issuance reduction within the next couple of years, a purposeful phenomenon known among enthus
Jul 9, 20194 min read

Bitcoin Cash Just Became the 2nd Most Valuable Blockchain
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) just skyrocketed to a new threshold. It’s now the 2nd most valuable blockchain in the entire cryptocurrency industry. Thi
Jul 2, 20193 min read

Fundamental Analysis – May 13th 2019
Fundamental analysis examines various factors underlying the value of cyptoasset. Fundamental analysis seeks to know whether a cryptoasset i
May 14, 20193 min read


Bitcoin Cash Outpaces BTC in Velocity of Money Metric by 6X
The Velocity of Money is an economic signal to determine the activity of an economy. Generally, the higher velocity the more activity occur
Mar 6, 20194 min read


Bitcoin Cash Fundamentals: Active Addresses, TX Volume, TX Count
arkets are hard to measure. Economists (the dank kind) have postulated how trying to fix prices at a static point in time renders inaccurate
Feb 26, 20192 min read


The Story of How ICO Investment Plunged 70% in One Year
ICOs raised a cumulative $2.2 billion in the third quarter of this year, which represents a drop of about 70% from the high of last quarter’
Dec 24, 20183 min read


The Race to Replace Tether (In 3 Charts)
Tether, which aims to keep its token (called tether or USDT) at parity with the U.S. dollar by backing each token with $1 in bank deposits,
Oct 29, 20184 min read


The Developer Drop Off: Litecoin GitHub Activity Languishes
How do you judge the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies? There are many answers to this question, but a good way to start is to measu
Sep 4, 20182 min read


The crypto-political landscape has grown beyond its anarchist roots
Indeed, many early adopters were drawn to bitcoin's revolutionary potential and there has long been a close association between libertariani
Aug 18, 20183 min read
The Takeaway
In other words, if you see something only from a certain angle, you can’t be confident you have the full picture. This goes for cryptocurren
Aug 12, 20183 min read
Will Bitcoin Cash Float On?
One year ago, a maelstrom of debate around scaling Bitcoin ensued and out of it came Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Bitcoin Cash followers viewed the
Aug 12, 20183 min read


Left, Right and Center: Crypto Isn’t Just for Libertarians Anymore
While some say crypto is apolitical, others argue a technology that takes direct aim at central bank-driven monetary policy can’t be anythin
Jul 27, 20183 min read

Larry Sharpe & Crypto - Startup Cities
Larry Sharpe is running for governor to change and innovate the state. He is one of the most supportive and knowledgeable politicians on the
Jul 10, 20181 min read
$6.3 Billion: 2018 ICO Funding Has Passed 2017’s Total
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) raised more money in the first three months of 2018 than the whole of 2017, according to data collected by Coi
Apr 19, 20182 min read
Bitcoin’s ‘Kimchi Premium’ Has All But Evaporated
Indeed, the price furor that began in early November when talk that bitcoin futures listings would go live in the U.S. triggered a wave of s
Mar 3, 20182 min read

ICOs Accelerating Ascent
While we are less than 2 months into 2018, ICOs have shown no sign of slowing down. As of February 21, ICOs have raised 57% of 2017’s total
Feb 22, 20181 min read


Startup Cities: Urbanization as Opportunity
The city is the foundational layer on which institutions and people interact to push innovation forward. They act as clusters of knowledge a
May 24, 201712 min read

Startup Cities First Panel
We are hosting an event to champion ideas of treating cities just like startups. A panel of fantastic speakers will discuss the topic from e
Feb 15, 20175 min read

Pivoting with Michael Lisovetsky: CEO & Founder of Skylight
Michael Lisovetsky (NYU Stern’15) is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO & Founder of Skylight, an app that helps you sublet your apartment or
Jul 14, 20166 min read

David Goldberg, Principal, of Corigin Ventures
Corigin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm supporting founders who are impacting the future of consumer behavior and daily livi
Apr 19, 20168 min read

The Virtual Reality Office:
Virtual Reality is sexy. It appears to be one of the most promising areas of new technology in recent years. After some development time, co
Apr 4, 20162 min read

A Day in the Life: HomeSwipe’s Michael Lisovetsky
Michael Lisovetsky (NYU Stern’15) is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of HomeSwipe, an app that helps you quickly find the home of y
Mar 14, 20166 min read


Michael Lebowitz: Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship
Michael Lebowitz is the Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a digital advertising agency. He is a frequent Lecturer at NYU Stern Business Scho
Feb 24, 20166 min read

Higher Interest Rates = Lower VC Activity
The FED decision to increase “the range of its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to between 0.25 percent and 0.50 p
Feb 16, 20161 min read

The Story of Silicon Valley Bank
In the early 1980s, there was a sunny region in California, with beaches to its west and redwoods to its east, which was just starting to cr
Feb 2, 20169 min read

Donate to Transfernation: A Hunger Problem — An App Solution
Transfernation is raising money for their social effort, please donate here. Learn more about them in an interview with one of their co-foun
Dec 8, 20154 min read

Interview Sessions: NYU Professor / Entrepreneur Foster Provost
Professor Foster Provost is Professor of Data Science at New York University and Professor of Information Systems and Andre Meyer Faculty Fe
Oct 2, 20156 min read

The “Film-trepreneur”: An Interview with James Belfer of Dogfish Accelerator
While the film industry is not typically associated with entrepreneurship the way software or even fashion is, being successful in film is a
Sep 22, 20153 min read

Interview Sessions: comiXology’s David Steinberger
David Steinberger is the CEO and co-founder of comiXology. Founded in 2007 shortly before co-winning the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge, comiXo
Sep 16, 20153 min read

Interview Sessions: Brian Shimmerlik, CEO & Founder of Vengo
Brian Shimmerlik is the CEO and founder of Vengo. Founded in 2012, Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects
Sep 14, 20154 min read

Interview Session: Tom Igoe, co-founder of Arduino
Tom Igoe is a co-founder of Arduino and runs the physical computing area of the curriculum at ITP. The whole mission of ITP is to take peopl
Sep 10, 20155 min read

Jin Kim Montclare = NYU Professor + Entrepreneur
Jin Kim Montclare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU School of Engineering, per
Aug 6, 20157 min read
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