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This whole article is just a review of what was said by an economist. The part I found especially important is towards the end of the first page, where he talks about how aggregate supply is sometime undervalued. The Commerce Department generally does not report on the aggregate supply, but rather they focus on aggregate demand. For the aggregate supply. the work actually needs to get done for it to happen. The work being labour and productivity.

Theis article talks about how Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke believes aggregate demand, not supply, is the reason of economic restraint and unemployment. For aggregate supply, economic activity, and GDP to increase, he believes that aggregate demands need to increase as well for the unemployed to produce these effects.

This articles talks about how there has been an increase in minimum wage in America. Overall, the article says it is indeed a very good thing for the economy. Changes to labour costs mean that the increase in wages leads to increased costs of production which leads to a fall in aggregate supply.

This is an article discussing the different views on the Keynesian model of LRAS. The author argues that the Keynesian model does not account for influences of fiscal policy, and relates this to American economic policy.

This article discusses the effects of passing a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. On one hand it could reduce total employment by 500,000 workers by the second half of 2016, but on the other it could drag 900,000 families out of poverty and increase the annual incomes of 16.5 million minimum wage workers. Moreover, by increasing minimum wage, for the industries that this affects, total output would decrease, as the factors of production would cost more.

This articles discusses the problems that China is pacing with regards to its Coal sector.Providing approximately 70% of Chinese energy, this sector is a vital part of the chinas primary energy.

Ghana's economy is waining in productivity, meaning lower price levels, causing a shift of the SRAS curve to the left.

The article talks about the economic growth many developing countries have experienced in Asia. However, they are facing a problem: the developed world is experiencing a recession which may slow Asia's growth down.