The success and failure of foreign carmakers in the US - work in progess
—Why did Renault fail and Kia succeed?
Ed-Op: Club sports get more SAFAC funding because of greater need -
May 2008
—Letter to the Editor: I respond to an Op-Ed on student funding in Drexel University's Student Newspaper, The Triangle. I am not sure why the Ed-Op editor left the improper conjugation in the first sentence, or if that was my error or his.
The Demutualization of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange -
September 2007
—About the demutualization (process of turning from a coopperative organization to a shareholder-based corporation) of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and its future. The PHLX was bought by NASDAQ a month-and-a-half after I wrote this.
The Bank of Japan -
June 2007
—A history of central banking in Japan. The transition of Japan from feudal autarchy to an imperialist power required a central bank. The history of the Yen from it's creation with the New Currency Act in 1871 to the dissolution of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971; from its balance-of-payment crisis in 1890 due to the escalating price of silver in America to the Japanese real estate bubble-burst in 1990.
EU citizenship is fostering a European sense of identity -
Winter 2007
—A new generation of Europeans, many of whom were still children at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, identify as being European first and a national of their own country second—I would be interested in updating this paper to see how things have changed since 2008. I would imagine that as countries' economic stituations diverged, for example, Greece and Germany, that a common sense of identity diminished.
How Heatpipes Work -
Winter 2005
—A flash presentation showing how heatpipes work
El Oso Perezoso -
Fall 2003 (En Español)
—A fable about a bear, a fox, & a beaver
The OS -
Spring 2000
—The Operating System came a long way from the late 1970s to 2000; I explain how.