About Me

I’m Jason Gu, a college student studying economics and computer science and business at New York University, in the greatest city in the world.

I am also a writer for IR Insider, an NYU student newspaper focusing on global events in geopolitics, business, finance, and technology.

I became interested in finance from a young age. My parents are immigrants from Shanghai, China, but my father continues to work there. I myself studied there for eight years, from preschool to seventh grade. When I studied there, I was at the epicenter of a real estate boom that transformed my family’s fortunes. I read about the global financial crisis in 2008 on the internet and became interested in the power of real estate prices to shape major economies.

I came of age amidst a chaotic era in financial markets. COVID, which happened in my senior year in high school, caused a sharp downturn in markets that we quickly recovered from, and in my freshman year, the financial world was set ablaze by the antics of WallStreetBets that upended how people viewed markets and upended major players in the financial industry.

These events engendered a keen sensitivity for events that have the potential to start bull markets and end them, and a feeling that in the finance world, nothing is guaranteed. To be a successful investor entails constantly being on top of everything that’s happening in this chaotic world of ours, which personally makes finance a much more interesting field for me-it is an engine for people who otherwise might not be interested to learn more about the world around us. This is also what inspired me to start this blog-I understand the importance of sharing stories from around the world that could affect people’s finances.