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This an interesting article about the economic happenings from the Great Recession to the present day. It explains how the US economy progressed through and after the recession through the use of fiscal and monetary policies. However, these "policies" did not seem to efficiently help in the recovery of economic growth. Issuing higher taxes (for the so-called sake of increasing government revenue) on both the demand side and the supply side caused further damage to economic recovery and unemployment.

This article talks about how the monetary policy is controlled in India. It also shows how it caused economic growth.

This article outlines a request by the official Charles Evans of the US Federal Reserve to fiscal policy makers to fight inflation (presumably using deflationary fiscal policy), and thusly boost economic growth.

This article discusses the differences in economics and politics in general, and touches upon how dependent economies are on the policies of government, and how the government is equally dependent on the behavior of economies.

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 Foreign Policy article contemplates that the Arab Spring uprisings were largely due to por and unstable economic situations, especially in Tunisia, where the revolutions started.

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.

To combat the negative effects of the 2008 recession, many banks employed quantative easing - selling securities and printing money in order to liquify commercial banks. Now that said easing is coming to a halt, proper economic growth is finally possible.

This article is about India's need for supply side policies, to ensure future economic growth, and prevent the growing industry to grow to be a problem for the future economy.

This article discusses how the decrease in consumer expenditure in Japan has overall decreased the aggregate demand of the Japanese economy; people are worried that this would spell disaster for the economic policy of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.

This article talks about how a man named John. H Mankin thinks that a recession is going to happen in the US very soon. He predicted this based on past trends and by analysing the statistics. He saw that unemployment is above 7.5% and for the first time since 2011 the housing sector failed. He says that in 2011 and in 2012 the US suffered two growth declines and the fiscal and monetary policies used during those times will not work a third time thus resulting in a 'third-time unlucky recession of 2014'

This article discusses how the inflation rate of the UK has decreased to 1.7% - a four-year low. This is in cohesion to increasing wages, and Prime Minister Cameron has used this to praise his cabinet's economic policy, aiming to further decrease the rate to 1% by the end of the year.

This article highlights how the UK inflation rate has fallen to a four-year low of 1.7%. The drop in petrol prices is the main reason of this fall in inflation rates.