War For The White House: A Look Back, A Look Now, & A Look At How I Decided My Vote

Guess what guys, it’s election day. And just so you know, if you didn’t vote, America reserves the right to trade you to China and/or...

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Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 4: The Wrap-Up & The Future

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 4: The Wrap-Up & The Future

By Jeremy Lucas | Business, Editorial

“Regrets are mistakes that memories make.” – Misheard Lyrics In My Head of Adele’s Someone Like You So, what is the point of all this? Well, the problem of memory and public culture here is that we’re remembering what we’re already living in, like a sad Alzheimer’s patient. We’re just stumbling around trying to find

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 3: Paulson & The Bailouts

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 3: Paulson & The Bailouts

By Jeremy Lucas | Business, Documentary, Editorial

One of the great debates that “The Love of Money” and “Too Big To Fail” bring up is whether or not bailing out the banks was a good idea, or a bad idea. Would the economy have been better served if Lehman Brothers had been saved, or was it a right decision to let the

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 2: Bankers & Villains

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 2: Bankers & Villains

By Jeremy Lucas | Business, Editorial, Film

Movies are an important part of our life. Because of their easy-to-understand language, they’re consumed on a mass-level, and because they engage us, they stay with us. Because of that, film plays an extremely important part in the public memory of an event. I know a lot more about the Titanic disaster than the Oklahoma

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 1: An Introduction

Remembering The Great Recession, While Still Living In It Pt. 1: An Introduction

By Jeremy Lucas | Business, Editorial

I don’t know about you, but the Fall of 2008 is kind of hazy for me. There was a Presidential election, I was in embroiled in a semester of Community College, I had a Macroeconomics class where I did a presentation about the failings and future failings of the United Kingdom’s economy. I barely remember

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