Bitcoin can be confusing. What role does it play in society now? And, perhaps more importantly, what role will it play in the future of the global economy? Emmanuel Young investigates… The impression of Bitcoin […]
Cryptocurrencies: A Year in Review and What the Future Has in Store
As has become the norm in its recent history, the cryptocurrency industry has once again failed to stop generating headlines in 2019. From the meteoric price growth that defined the first two quarters of 2019, […]
An Afternoon with Hilary Benn: Leeds Economics Society Pose Questions to Labour’s Candidate for Leeds Central
Hilary Benn has played a central role in the Brexit process since Theresa May set up the Select Committee for Exiting the European Union, which Benn chaired. Benn was invited by LUU Economics Society to […]
State of Emergency: Inequality in the UK
The Gryphon takes a look at how high inequality has led to violent protests in Chile and reflects on sustained income inequality in the UK. Over the last few weeks intensifying protests in Chile saw […]
London, Paris, Leeds… The Boyd Company reports on where the banks of the future may operate.
The Boyd Company, a New Jersey-based independent location counsel to corporations including Dell and GlaxoSmithKline recently released a report comparing the cost of operating a banking & financial services back office in London compared with […]
Why Facebook Has Become FACEBOOK
The eagle-eyed of you may have spotted that one of the world’s biggest companies has just gone through a rebranding process: Facebook. It must be clarified that Facebook has not rebranded the online platform which […]
Looking Back and Moving Forward: The American Economy Under Trump
As Americans queue up at polling stations in a year’s time, they will need to ask themselves a simple, yet crucial question: how has Trump done so far? For many, Donald Trump’s time in the […]
Controversy over Asda’s New Contracts
In March, Asda released a new employment contact (6) which simplify terms for hourly paid workers and increased basic pay. Originally it was announced that employees had to sign the new contract 6 by midnight […]
The Irrational Economics of High Fashion
If there’s one thing students certainly don’t have, it’s an abundance of disposable income. Twenty-pound weekly food shops at Aldi and the seizing of any and all deals available would prove this. But one trend […]
What’s it like to spend a year with the world’s leading financial advisory, Lazard?
Lazard is the world’s largest independent investment bank and is a financial advisory and asset managemnt firm with bases all around the world. Business editor Chloe Pryce catches up with Cameron Mackintosh, a final year […]
Facebook Power Ahead with new Crypto-currency Libra
As the decentralised ledger technology (DLT) space becomes more and more mainstream, companies from all around the world are beginning to divert significant resources to the space in an attempt to capitalise on the benefits […]
Nobel Economics Prize: A Female Success Story
It is no secret that women in the economics profession have been and still continue to be under-represented. Throughout time, institutions and academics have often disregarded female figures in the field. In 1976, Milton Friedman […]