Buy or rent?
The vast majority of Marquette students has or will rent an apartment for their junior and senior years. Every month, students write a rent check to the slumlords who make a huge profit off of their...
View ArticleNew meal plan: do the numbers add up?
Marquette has finally implemented a new meal program, due in large part to the fervent and consistent complaints that students brought to the Office of Residence Life. The Marquette meal plans...
View ArticleStop keeping money under the mattress
Financial instability, turmoil in the market, rising prices, falling stocks, mergers, foreclosures, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; all signs of a market on the brink of the R-word. We won’t say...
View ArticleNowhere to run, nowhere to hide: How the economic crisis could affect Marquette
This past Friday afternoon, President Bush set a historic precedent when he signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The bill, referred to by many as the “bailout bill”, is the...
View ArticleTough Economy…Maybe I’ll Go to Grad School
Most of us have invested a great deal of time and resources into our continued education with the hope that when we graduate it will return great dividends. And since we all attend Marquette...
View ArticleBroke? A few simple ideas that will have you having fun without spending a...
If the economic slump has got you down, there are several ways to have fun for very little while staying around campus. Late night is always a good option when you want to do something for free. A few...
View ArticleElection 2008: Political economics 101
With the election drawing near, and many voters still undecided (even here at Marquette) the Warrior thought it would be a good idea to shed some much needed light on the two candidates, particularly...
View ArticleWhat does the Federal Reserve do anyway?
Last week we saw the Federal Reserve taking greater steps to try and stem the tide of economic decline here in the United States. Interestingly, we also saw central banks around the world taking...
View ArticleTop five reasons the auto industry is insoluble
With news in the past week that GM, Ford and Chrysler, the big three, would be seeking part of the financial industry bailout to stay afloat, one has to wonder what exactly is going on right now in...
View ArticleStimulus Package Deal: Did Partisanship Stop at the Water’s Edge?
The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” of 2009, the proposed government stimulus package,, is set to be introduced sometime in the very near future. The legislation is supposed to focus on job...
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