Hi! My name is Evan, and I’m a senior Economics student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but I’ve also studied at several other institutions around the world, such as CIEE Paris, the London School of Economics, and the University of Sydney. I’m the type of person who will happily talk your ear off about market dynamics, monetary policy, or why some random chart I found at 2 a.m. is actually fascinating. So instead of inflicting that horrible, horrible pain on my friends and roommates, I decided to build this site. So, now I can inflict it on you instead!

I created this journal as a place to dig into the ideas that get me excited: global markets, macro trends, decision making, finance, policy debates, and the unexpected ways economics shows up in everyday life. It’s part notebook, part soapbox, and part exploration of the questions I don’t have answers to yet.

My love for economics has been shaped by studying and traveling around the world. From Paris, London, and Sydney to everywhere in between. Seeing how different countries think about growth, policy, and people has pushed me to think more broadly and more creatively about the systems we live in.

This site is where I share articles, research, opinion pieces, and the occasional half-philosophical deep dive. Some articles will be analytical, some a little chaotic (in a good way), but know that all of them are written with curiosity and my genuine enthusiasm.

So, welcome to my little world of economics. I hope you find something here that challenges you, interests you, or at least makes the scary world of economics feel a bit less scary. And if you don’t- no worries. Just close the tab, and we’ll pretend this never happened.