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Wealthiest Pay Higher Taxes With Scant U.S. Economic Harm - 2 views

www.businessweek.com/...-dot-s-dot-economic-harm-taxes

Fiscal policy Obama USA

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  • Lau A on 20 Apr 14
     
    This article talks about tax increases for high-income Americans, and how this plus spending cuts and economic growth might help reduce their debt.
Lau A

UK economy growing at fastest rate since 2007 - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...business-25926648

economic growth

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  • Lau A on 01 Apr 14
     
    This article talks about how the UK's economy is growing as a result of the long-policies the government made in order to rebalance the economy.
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Setting up a hot summer of higher inflation - 0 views

www.cbsnews.com/...hot-summer-of-higher-inflation

inflation

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  • Lau A on 18 Mar 14
     
    This article talks about how the inflation in the USA has been non existing for the last couple of years, and how it now might change due to changes in expectations.
Lau A

Oil-gas boom - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...s-economic-growth-and-security

business cycle employment _ unemployment Economic boom

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  • Lau A on 03 Mar 14
     
    This talks about why the policy makers, despite awareness of global warning, are not acting to harm the oil industry - The oil industry seems to have a possitive effect on employment and economic growth.
Lau A

Eurozone business growth 'eases' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-26270715

Business growth

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  • Lau A on 23 Feb 14
     
    Business growth in the eurozone eased this month but the bloc's economy continued to expand at a "robust pace", a closely watched survey suggests. The latest Markit eurozone composite purchasing managers' index (PMI) dipped to 52.7 from 52.9 in January. A figure above 50 indicates expansion.
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Week 20 - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...japan-weak-growth-exports-gdp

aggregate demand exports imports GDP

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  • Lau A on 18 Feb 14
     
    This article talks about Japan's exports and how it has affected their domestic demand
Lau A

US economy grows at 3.6 percent rate - 1 views

www.usnews.com/...-at-36-percent-rate-in-3rd-qtr

Macroeconomic activity

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  • Lau A on 09 Feb 14
     
    This article talks about how the US economy has grown by 3.6 percent in the third quarter of 2013, and how stockpiles account for a vast majority of this grow.
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Turkey's economy versus political stability - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...atens-economic-success-erdogan

Politics Economics

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  • Lau A on 03 Feb 14
     
    This article talks about the economy of Turkey and how it has changed rapidly within a few years all because of political stability, they say.
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Turning green land into housing areas - 1 views

www.thehindu.com/...article3385813.ece

Tragedy of the commons public access

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  • Lau A on 12 Jan 14
     
    This talks about Indian farming areas that are turned into housing plots
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Ban on smoking in certain areas of NY - 0 views

www.nydailynews.com/...blic-smoking-article-1.1470131

Negative externality

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  • Lau A on 11 Dec 13
     
    This talks about how New York deals with the negative externality caused by smoking.
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Nuclear waste - 0 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article14300723

negative externality economics

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  • Lau A on 02 Dec 13
     
    This talks about Ontario's problem and how they are going to deal with nuclear waste, which is a negative externality of nuclear power.
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The U.S. Health Care System Doesn't Need Price Controls. It Needs Price Signals. - 0 views

reason.com/...lth-care-system-doesnt-need-pr

Price control

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  • Lau A on 25 Nov 13
     
    For years, Americans have heard warnings about high health spending: The U.S. spends a greater percentage of its economy on health care than any other nation, and the trend lines make clear that in future years we'll be spending more still. More recently, we've seen media attention focus on the prices that Americans pay for medical services.
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Excise tax on tobacco in Australia - 0 views

www.bloomberg.com/...o-narrow-budget-shortfall.html

Excise tax

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  • Lau A on 21 Nov 13
     
    This article talks about a 12.5% excise tax on tobacco in Australia which is supposed to boost the Australian economy and to reduce smoking-cancer.
Lau A

The vey end of elastic oil - 0 views

peakoil.com/...the-end-of-elastic-oil

Elasticity of supply

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  • Lau A on 11 Nov 13
     
    This article talks about how oil has changed significantly the last 10 years, and what factors affected this.
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The end of a monopoly - 0 views

articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/...aviation-turbine-fuel-fuel-use

Elasticity

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  • Lau A on 18 Oct 13
     
    This talks about how Indian Oil Corp used to be a monopoly of fuel in India. So going from in-elastic to elastic due to launching of new companies that produce fuel.
Lau A

Price increase of avocados due to short supply and great demand - 0 views

www.nzherald.co.nz/...article.cfm

supply demand

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  • Lau A on 15 Oct 13
     
    This talks about how the supply of avocados is very short while the demand is big. This of course leads to a price increase since supply is short while demand being big.
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Demand of surgical gloves is growing - 0 views

articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/...1_40-crore-150-crore-100-crore

Demand

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  • Lau A on 30 Sep 13
     
    The demand of latex gloves is growing this article talks about. The company is facing to increase production.
Lau A

Water scarcity is the biggest challenge for Delhi: Sheila Dikshit - 0 views

articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/...carcity-water-tariff-raw-water

Scarcity water growing demand scarce supply

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  • Lau A on 24 Sep 13
     
    This relates to scarcity. It talks about how the demand of water will probably grow larger within a few years and how the supply of water is scarce at the moment.
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