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...
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Aug 26, 20227 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...
Jun 12, 202224 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...
Jan 31, 20229 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...
Dec 16, 20215 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...
Oct 12, 202111 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...
Aug 6, 202165 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...
May 21, 20214 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 7, 202121 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...
Jan 10, 202116 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...
Dec 28, 202022 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...
Nov 11, 20209 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...
Jan 18, 20204 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 13, 202016 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 5, 20209 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.
Oct 16, 20191 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 1, 20194 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
Sep 8, 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
Jul 9, 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 2, 20193 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
May 14, 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
Mar 6, 20194 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
Feb 26, 20192 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
Dec 24, 20183 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’
Oct 29, 20184 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,
Sep 4, 20182 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
Aug 18, 20183 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 12, 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
Jul 27, 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 10, 20181 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
Apr 19, 20182 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
Mar 3, 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
Feb 22, 20181 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
May 24, 201712 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
Feb 15, 20175 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
Jul 14, 20166 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
Apr 19, 20168 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 4, 20162 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
Mar 14, 20166 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
Feb 24, 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 16, 20161 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 2, 20169 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
Dec 8, 20154 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
Oct 2, 20156 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
Sep 22, 20153 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 16, 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 14, 20154 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 10, 20155 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
Aug 6, 20157 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
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