This article relates to economics because it talks about the stock market. The stock market is all about economics because it involves money, stocks, and bonds. This article also talks about fiscal cliff. Fiscal cliff is the popular shorthand term used to describe the conundrum that the U.S. government will face. This article later talks about settling claims It also mentions that the Treasury Department will put all of its money into General Motors. It also mentions trading. Overall, this whole article is just full of economics.

I chose this article because it is all about economics. It deals with taxes. It talks about how democrats want to raise taxes and republicans do not want to. Obama wants to raise taxes because he needs to earn one trillion dollars. Obama wants a proposal that is supposed to raise $523 billion dollars over the next ten years. The rest of the article deals with taxes and how Obama wants to raise them in order to cover the debt and earn more money.

This relates to economics because the whole article talks about loans and mortgages. It also talks about Wall Street.