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This article talks about how unemployment is decreasing and what are the causes. We saw that there was a seasonal unemployment and that the government's intervention was helpful as it created new jobs 

This article is talking about how the unemployment has gone down. Even decreased more than expected. It also discuss how the parties have been thinking about the unemployment in the US.

I think this article was appropriate for our task, since most of the article was about opportunity cost, if we should spend our money on fixing the future. This subject (the environment) can be seen as an opportunity cost since we choose to venture our money on the environment for the future, even though we might not will take part of the advantages now, for the moment.

This is a very interesting public good. It is both helpful for the government and the public. Pollution will decrease, which means better and healthier living condition, and the cost of the permits allows the government to add new public gods or improve the quality of its services. 

In this article we read about how ignorant we can be for the taxes we pay when entering cities due to the electronically tolls. It is very easy for the E-ZPass company to raise the cost when going through a toll since it is payed with electronic money. Still we get something out of this. We save time and we don't get frustrated on waiting to pay the toll. That is a demand that is very high since everyone has very little time to spare and we really don't Want to become frustrated. So this company use these demands in to their benefits.

In this article we read about how ignorant we can be for the taxes we pay when entering cities due to the electronically tolls. It is very easy for the E-ZPass company to raise the cost when going through a toll since it is payed with electronic money. Still we get something out of this. We save time and we don't get frustrated on waiting to pay the toll. That is a demand that is very high since everyone has very little time to spare and we really don't Want to become frustrated. So this company use these demands in to their benefits.

The article talks about how job creation needs to be created by the use of supply side policies.

this article talks about how a policy change could affect aggregate supply. It is quit hard to understand but it is very interesting. Of course this is from the point of view of an economist, Paul Krugman 

This article talks about how a group of people is considering creating their own currency.This raises many questions as would it be acceptable and what s the outcome on the rest of the world's economy especially that gold is intend to be used. 

The article describes a situation in which a company that is a monopoly becomes a monopsony. It also shows that a merge of two separate companies is very dangerous to the society.

This article deals with the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment rate.

The cost of meats, fish and eggs led last month to the biggest increase in food prices in nearly two and a half years, according to government data. An index that tracks those foods rose 1.2 percent in February and has climbed 4 percent over the last 12 months. This article outlines the effect of diminishing supply on national food prices. The example featured in this brief article is on the increase price of breakfast foods in the United States.