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Despite government policies which have tried to keep the increasingly high inflation rate in check and the central bank increasing the benchmark lending rate, brazils economy has encountered a 0.31% decrease in economic activity. Despite a growth in retail sales in November and stimulus spending by the government, the economy has contracted as prices rose and decreasing business confidence lead to a decline in investment.

This article shows how economic activity of certain countries like Japan and the U.S., are rising to the levels before the recession of 2008. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development this an improvement. The economic activity of other countries like China, Russia, and India are also shown.

This is a very interesting article about the negative effects of economic growth that allows us to directly relate the points raised in our weekly reading activity to the real world. 

This article details how the economy in Pakistan is showing signs of improvement. The level of economic activity has increased, especially due to reforms in the electricity sector (problems with load shedding have been resolved). The GDP has had better than expected growth, which brings about a positive outlook for the country's economy.

This article discusses the increase of consumer spending, even though incomes have remained the same. Consumer spending is the largest source of economic activity, and an increase in spending leads to stronger businesses, which leads to more jobs and better wages. This allows the Federal Reserve to scale back on the Economic Stimulus, which offset diminished consumer spending with public spending.

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 article outlines the surprising economic growth experienced in Germany in the fourth quarter of 2013. This is in the face of lower consumer expenditure, and analysts instead attribute it to a steadiness in government expenditure and an increase in investment, resulting in an overall increase in injections. Analysts are optimistic that this indicates a future growth burst for 2014.

Due to severe financial problems and economic instability, Zimbabwe now accepts 8 different currencies from foreign countrys, including their own. The hyperinflation causes injections of foreign money and leakage of Zimbabwe's own money.

The article talks about the economic boom China is experiencing. This affects the whole world when wealthy Chinese are buying for example properties as investments.

This articles talks about how there has been a growth in the US economy. The GDP has risen by 2.5%. This is due to exports, consumer expenditure and real estate spending. They exported more than they imported, since imports are leakages and exports are injections this helped boost their economy as the injections were greater than the leakages.

This article discusses how the foreign currency exchange market is in a period of very little activity. This is due to the incredibly stagnant interest rates across countries, which has seldom been so stable. It also details banker's crooked abuse of the system.