Chirag Biswas

The Congressional Budget Office is a nonpartisan agency in the legislative branch that analyzes budget proposals put forward by members of Congress. Earlier this year, it evaluated the merits and drawbacks of a $15 an hour minimum wage. Firstly, the study looks at negative effects, specifically that of employment. The Continue Reading

Last week, I took a trip to Kill Devil Hills, on North Carolina’s coast. It was a very interesting trip, since in addition to the beach, we visited the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which documents the two brothers’ successful attempt to achieve powered flight in 1903. While going through the Continue Reading

In this post, I wanted to touch upon an interesting topic in the world of finance: the gold standard, its use in the United States, and how the system ended in the 1970s. In simple terms, the gold standard is a system of monetary policy where a unit of currency Continue Reading

In March of this year, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, a massive 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package into law, providing checks to millions of Americans, giving funding to vaccination efforts, and providing money to state governments and local communities.  At the time, the country was recovering from COVID Continue Reading

A writeup I did on the minimum wage: https://drive.google.com/file/d/168920TG5evPDFybj68NVCWElDB8z33wb/view?usp=sharing

Policymakers at the federal level are often concerned about inflation, and more recently inflation with reference to the minimum wage and its devaluation. At the state level, various minimum wages have been put into effect, ranging from reliance on the federal wage ($7.25 an hour) in states like North Carolina, Continue Reading

A short presentation that I’m making about the 1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 bill passed in March: Link to presentation

Something I came up with about the minimum wage: Wage Slideshow (1)