Jacob Solomon's group - M2015(B)

Secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement have apparently been breached by another leak of material which shows Australian consumers could pay more for cancer medicines and face criminal penalties for non-commercial copyright breaches.

The article concerns the recent reveal by WikiLeaks of free-trade agreements between the nations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (members include the United States, Japan, Australia and Singapore). The article states that Australia has made considerable concessions to nations such as Japan and the US by permitting increases in regulation over intellectual property, specifically for cancer related drugs. The new regulation could mean that government permitted monopolies could be extended, meaning patients may be forced to pay more for treatment for longer periods of time.

This article is about tariffs, as tariffs on imported coal of up to 6% will take place in China, in order to give local coal miners the opportunity to rise their prices as they will become more demanded. 

There is currently a stalemate between Washington and Tokyo: the US is urging Japan to lower tariffs on agricultural imports. Japan claims it must protect some sensitive agricultural products but the tariffs are kept high to protect politically important farmers.

The Impacts of Free Trade This article concerns the weight of the USA on their free trade agreements (such as: NAFTA). This article s specifically concerning the area of Southern Florida. It also mentions how the USA has been under performing in the trading field compared to all its trading partners.

Talks are taking place between the EU and the USA to create the worlds biggest free trade area. In many goods the US is seen to have an absolute advantage in producing many goods but they also rely on European countries to provide many components to US businesses. This trade deal, although opposed by Unions and other activitists is seen by many to be vastly beneficial to the two parties.

After 30 years in which the virtues of the free market went largely unchallenged, a quiet revolution is making its way across Africa. Many governments are increasingly ready to toss out the orthodoxy and rethink the importance of the role of the state in national development. The article also discusses the negatives of free trade

This article is about a free-trade agreement between European Union and Singapore. The two sides reported that even the controversial chapter on investment protection had been sorted out.

This article discusses the importance of free market in the current economy.

This article is about a Swedish symbol called "Dalahästen" and its relations to Asia. This year, in some countries of Asia, is the year of the horse, and the material is wood. This is the optimal opportunity for the production to increase as the demand will be much higher as the proportion of people having a demand for them is larger than before.

This article talks about the initiative of china to create a free trade zone in the Asia Pacific region by 2025. The article talks about how this will be done and what 's in the draft. 

This article is about free trade, as Kiev and Brussels will launch a free trade zone, only if Russia violated the Brussels agreements on implementation of the Ukraine- European Union Association Agreement. 

This article concerns the challenges facing the new leader of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, specifically the prospect of fiscal stimulus to the economy, the breaking down of government bureaucracy, and the supply-side reforms that may make this possible. It also discusses the personal experience Widodo has in combatting similar challenges as Jakarta Governor, and concludes that, on their own, supply-side reform will not "boost the economy in the short term, but announcing some positive reforms should encourage investors and that should help with the demand side as well."

This article evaluate fiscal and monetary policy in reference to a real world example, and go over the benefits of supply-side policy. It suggests another course of action for the US government, one where supply-side policy would be emphasised rather than any demand-side policy, because the author states that the economic stagnation is not a demand-side problem. Easy article that evaluates policies in a clear way.

The article is about the inflation rate in Israel. Now the inflation rate has its lowest level in the past seven years. The central bank of Israel is worried and suggests some actions that will help to return the inflation rate to the price stability.

This article is about the inflation rate in Israel and how it is approaching 0. This is critical and Israel has recognised the need to bring back inflation rates to the government's target rate.

This is a very interesting article because it presents a well-known health care reform in the context of a supply-side policy. The article is about how Republicans have been blaming Obamacare for having negative supply-side effects on the economy and the labour force by reserving budgets for subsidising the system.

Republicans believed that supply rather than demand was to be blamed for the economy's state. However, there has been clear evidence that the job market was held back due to low demand. The article then starts to delve int Obamacare and how it had negative supply-side effects on the economy.

Obamacare is nothing new - it has been debated about for months, if not years, in one shape or form. This problem with Obamacare is that it has negative supply-side effects. These effects were offset by a half, with the presence of Medicaid, but now that the subsidies for health care have shrunken, the marginal tax rate would rise, thus discouraging people to find work and keep working. Politicians are pushing for supply-side reforms, but the Congress isn't budging due to the possibility that Obamacare, an expensive and time-consuming venture, might be scrapped.

This article from the London Evening Standard details how the IMF have warned the UK government over remaining household debt and the dangers it poses to the economy. The IMF have also called for 'supply side measures... to safeguard housing affordability' - a growing problem in both London and the UK as a whole.

this is relevent to this weeks reading because it amother way of the government making changes, however here its not the government its the central bank. and acts of the central baks are more monetary poilicy as they predominantly affect AD

This is an article concerning the Reserve Bank of India and its problem with inflation. The article discusses how the Govenor of the Reserve Bank of India will commit to his supply side policies in order to reduce in inflation by January next year. Very simple but interesting read that could spark one's interest into further investigating the issue.