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Modern Toolbox: Why the economy needs you to vote Democrat in the midterms

Jaeyoung Choi February 23, 2022
This wouldn’t be a problem if the rise in prices is matched by economic growth and wage growth — but it isn’t being matched. Inflation, today, has gone past what the Federal Reserve had deemed the target. In December 2021, we were sitting at a 7% year-over-year rate, the fastest pace of inflation since 1982. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Modern Toolbox: The Chinese government banned crypto mining, and that’s a good thing

Jaeyoung Choi September 15, 2021
China’s ban on crypto mining exposes a fatal flaw in Bitcoin and other proof-of-work-based cryptocurrencies.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Modern Toolbox: The Federal Reserve is killing the United States

Jaeyoung Choi September 8, 2021
Blockchain is the future, and we can either watch the Fed continue to botch its responsibilities or force it to adapt.
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White Massachusetts residents more than twice as likely to own a business than Black, Latinx residents

Anna Stjernquist March 31, 2021
Less than half a percent of Boston’s 2014-2019 contract spending went to Black-owned business.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Modern Toolbox: The Federal Reserve may have failed, but crypto is the way forward

Jaeyoung Choi March 2, 2021
Control over your personal finances is a concern that I, as a liberal, believe to be a multi-partisan issue. No matter how you vote or what you believe in, your money should be yours, without anyone else’s control over it.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Modern Toolbox: Cryptocurrency is the future

Jaeyoung Choi February 24, 2021
Cryptocurrency is set to change the world, for better or worse. If you want to be part of the biggest financial revolution since the creation of the International Monetary Fund in 1945, the time is now.
Marcelo Guadiana marches to the Federal Reserve building during “Boston Audit the Fed” Saturday afternoon hosted by the University of Massachusetts Boston’s chapter of Young Americans for Liberty. PHOTO BY JESS RICHARDSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pushing an audit on the Federal Reserve, Young Americans for Liberty march through Boston

Sophia Brown September 24, 2017

  Around 20 people gathered for an anti-Federal Reserve rally Saturday afternoon on the Boston Common and marched to the Federal Reserve Bank Building in an effort to demand an audit of the...

Federal reports show conflicting data on Mass. economy

Daily Free Press Admin September 11, 2013

The monthly Current Population Survey from the U.S. Department of Labor released Friday showed unemployment is steadily increasing. Conversely, the Federal Reserve District’s beige book released on...

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