Dough! Magazine
The Recession Issue
Kind of like The Economist, but if their editors didn’t know how to do their taxes.
Dough! is a monthly newsletter for the culturally-informed and economically-uninformed; the TikTok-fluent and paperwork-inept.
We believe in stories about the economy. Stories that explain why your pizza is no longer a dollar or why Hailey Bieber is trending on Pinterest. Unlike the economic journalism that currently saturates the Internet, we don’t expect our readers to know what GDP means or even how to do their taxes (like us).
It’s reported that financial insecurity and economic circumstances are, if not the most, among the most severe stressors for Gen-Z and Millennials today. And while, yes, financial literacy (i.e., knowing how to do your taxes) is wildly important and on the rise, economic literacy is an entirely different beast—stagnating and overlooked. Economic literacy is the understanding of economic concepts, not necessarily as they relate to personal finance, but how they manifest into national and global interests. At a time when the U.S. economy veers towards a possible recession, it’s critical that more young people engage with core economic concepts and principles that ultimately determine the material conditions of overpriced pizza and unpaid internships.
Dough does not claim to cure this widely neglected tidbit of our educational system, but through stories that are at least more interesting than Nasdaq Leads Indexes Higher (Wall Street Journal) or Bond Market Parties On as Jobs Data Revive Fed Rate-Cut Bets (Bloomberg), we hope reading about the economy might become a bit more tolerable.
WHAT DOUGH IS NOT
Dough is not a hub for the chronically “downtown.” It is not trying to make finance cool, in fact, quite the opposite. It, frankly, does not care about the who’s who on Wall Street, although it does indulge in a bit of gossip every once in awhile. Dough isn’t trying to bring more VCs or tech leaders into the mix, because it believes the common man’s economic tussle has just as much value.
It does not care for the commercial editorialization of luxury fashion magazines or the incessant advertising that plagues each page. It will never follow the rules. It will never be boring.
Bella De Angelis
Founding Editor + Designer
Brooklyn, New York
Emma Slack-Jorgensen
Editor
Brooklyn, New York
Chrisaleen Ciro
Editor
New York, New York
Megan Robinson
Managing Editor
New York, New York
WRITERS
Sam Venis is a Canadian writer, strategist, and part-time dramatist, once described in a friend’s job application as a "Max Read-in-the-making," though he prefers to think of himself more as a tech-Philip Roth. But a Max Read-in-the-making would say that, so who knows?
Hope Donovan is a self-diagnosed socialite. She recently graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is proud to join an esteemed alumnae network of unemployed essayists.
Corissa Steiner (writer, investor, editor) trades the WTI/Brent spread from the comfort of the Wall Street baths.