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This article talks about how Apple seemingly tried to avoid high taxes by filling returns through a subsidiary because taxes were lower. The government and tax officials will have to take on a better control of those companies under their taxes.

This article talks about how the Commonwealth ticket sales increased in quantity. The popular sports caused people to buy more tickets to watch that sport. This shows how certain preferred things of people can increase sales. It can also affect the number of tickets bought the next commonwealth games. The number will probably increase in demand, thus the ticket will sellers make more money.

This article is about the spike in corn prices in 2007. It talks about the price of corn which is the main ingredient in ethanol, the primary alternative fuel, is increasing fast and causing a series of problems on the market e.g. the price of other food which is made of corn is rising dramatically, farmers complains that corn price is too high for them to feed live-stocks. There are also many predictions in the article about the future price of corn based on the demand and supply rules. This is an great article related to what we have learned. So check it out!!

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 looks at what the Royal Bank of India believes could be harmful for the future. There are five main points, and one of them talks about the aggregated demand. There is hope for the aggregate demand to increase due to infrastructure projects coming through.

India is facing some macroeconomic concerns. Her economic recovery remains at slow rate. This causes weaknesses in aggregate demand and consumption demand.

This article talks about how most of the countries using the euro has experienced a 12% increase in the unemployment rate due to the decreasing inflation. Around 19.2 million people were out of work during that time and the inflation fall was much steeper than what analysts expected.

This article is about how Starbucks and other major companies have been avoiding tax payments. It explains that though tax avoidance is legal, it is done through dubious transactions and fraudulent reports. This has occurred because of the high tax placed on coffee by the government.

This article describes a relationship between a slight drop in disposable income and a correlating drop in consumer spending in the high streets of Northern Ireland. Even though the economic state of Northern Ireland is steadily improving, consumers did not see a noticeable increase in real wages, so it is not reflected in consumer spending.

Domestic producers were harmed because America was putting high subsidies on shrimp's importet from Malaysia, China, Ecuador, India and Vietnam. It was now decided to put anti-subsidies on shrimps to help producers inside the own country

In this video, one can see how Apple created a false sense of scarcity of their products. This makes the demand for the product increase since potential consumers believe that there is a high demand for the product.

This article talks about the inspection of 1500 businesses in Venezuela that have been charging (too) high prices for their products. The subject of Price controls arises as a method of intervention suggested by Nicolas Manduro, the president of Venezuela.

This is an article about 2013 Bangladeshi building collapsing and the incidents happened after it. It also analyse the reason behind the building collapsing. We have learned about scarcity. Because the scarcity of money, people tend to buy cheap fashion clothes. So companies are moving into poor developing countries, and using cheap labor to decrease the cost of labor. Also, this article made me think how we can do to protect those people who died in the collapsing by stopping buying cheap clothing.

This paper examines the effects of the increase of oil costs on countries that import oil for industrial purposes. It uses an equilibrium model to show the negative effects of an increased cost in oil. You must open the PDF.

This article talks about how teams price their tickets in the inelastic portion of their demand functions. To ensure maximum attendance and revenue, they lower the ticket price in order for more people to buy.

An article about the elasticity on the Super Bowl Ticket prices. Increases from $1,250USD -> $2,600USD and $950USD -> $1,500USD. It shows that teams want to charge more per seat instead of filling up all the seats; they prefer a high elasticity

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Giants' co-owners Steve Tisch and John Mara, Jets owner Woody Johnson, David Tyree, former Jets player Emerson Boozer, former Jets player Curtis Maritn, CEO of the NY/NJ Superbowl Host Committee Al Kelly attend the 'Join The Huddle' Road To Super Bowl XLVIII Kick Off Mobile Tour [...]

This article talks about how India's economic growth rate has picked up strongly. It shows how India has had many problems in the past including high inflation and a weak currency and a slowdown in the mining industry which have all slowed down their growth.

The proposed increase in tariff on wind energy in Tamil Nadu is too high for the industry standard.

This article talks about how the US has imposed tariffs on importers of Chinese solar panels. The Chinese panels were being sold in the World market at a very low price due to subsidies that the Chinese government had been giving to solar panel manufacturers which resulted in the low selling price. Due to this, demand was high in the US for these panels as opposed to domestically made panels, therefore the aim of the tariffs was to increase the price of the panels so that people in the US would buy locally made panels boosting the local solar industry as opposed to the Chinese one.

In this article, the trade minister of India, Anand Sharma, believes that the United States is placing very high protectionism upon their trade due to intellectual property rights.