This is a report on the World Bank's economic predictions for the financial situation of India in 2012-13. Economic growth will be low, and aggregate demand in mentioned in the context of fiscal consolidation and higher interest rates. These factors will decrease the AD, and we are especially aware that higher interest rates decrease investment and firm spending. Both of those activities will undoubtedly hinder India's national economic growth.
This article talks about environmental sustainability, especially in the US, in terms of the carbon and oil situation. Hindering some paths of oil trade, may slow down the trade in the early stages, however there will be other paths since the international demand is so high right now. The price is steadily decreasing with the increased demand. The only ways to control this demand for oil that may be hurting our planet would be to tax the carbon (increasing the price), therefore decreasing demand.
Imposing taxes and other restrictions on foreign purchases helps to increase the prices of imported goods, so as to decrease the level of demand for the foreign currencies.
When the currency of one country is weakened, the prices of imported goods and services will rise. The demand for imported good(in this case, from China) is decreased. The Chinese manufacturers might want to decrease the amount of production.
Falling export orders was one of the complaints voiced by Chinese manufacturers in a preliminary survey of purchasing managers published by HSBC last week.
This article states the relationship between currencies, which links to prices, and the demand for goods and services. While the currencies are weakened worldwide, the manufacturing industries are highly impacted. Therefore, the supply is lowered.
This article describes the decrease in currency value of the rupee, which the central bank is trying to correct by selling dollars and purchasing their own currency.
This article discusses how new technology (as well as government subsidies) are allowing the costs of production of wind turbines and wind-generated electricity to decrease.
This article details how the large company Proctor & Gamble is attempting to cut variable costs by eliminating jobs, which leads to lower labour costs. This action results in a lower cost for their products, leading to more productive efficiency. This competitive behaviour is also partially reflective of perfect competition, where companies must decrease costs in order to increase profits; however the article also focuses a lot on the advertising done by Proctor & Gamble, which is not fitting with the assumptions of the perfect competition model.
This article illustrates an important aspect of taxing that we looked at in the past few weeks, and are looking at this week as well. The government increases taxes on inelastic products (such as tobacco and alcohol- which are addictive and therefore necessities). This is done as with a price increase on an inleastic product, the demand decreases by a proportionally smaller amount. This decreases any potential danger for high levels of unemployment on behalf of the company's supplying the products.
This article discusses China's economic growth over the past few years, and that although the GDP has been increasing, it is doing so at a decreasing rate (e.g. a 10.4% increase in 2010 and a 9.2% increase in 2011).
This could reflect a contraction on the business cycle; as it is a period of the economy in which increases, but at a decreasing rate.
This article talks about how supply-side policies are implemented and how it affects the price of gasoline. This is mainly because of the global crude oil prices decreasing. On top of that, there is an increase in supply from the Middle East supplemented by a decrease in demand.
"If there are any problems on the supply side, as in Iran, Libya or Nigeria, then prices will be right back up," said Michael C. Lynch, president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research.
Iphone 4 and Galaxy S are very close substitutes to each other.
Newspaper, magazines and power-bloggers are making hectic efforts to praise the Galaxy S as the ultimate iPhone killer. Galaxy S is a good product, but I am so sick of those ‘iPhone killer phones’ comments.
They don’t deny the quality of the Galaxy S, and are well aware of iPhone 4’s reception problems; they are just not thrilled at being pushed into buying Samsung.
MITT ROMNEY'S dense comments about the dependency of Americans who pay no income taxes were dense not only because they seemed to write off a significant portion of...
This article talks of how the amount of people who pay no tax is very high and tax cuts are currently being discussed to try to decrease the burden on the middle class. The upper class currently has quite a high tax rate. This is trying to distribute the income more fairly.
by 1.5 percentage points
since November last year to stimulate industries outside of
resources as commodity prices ease. A high currency has hurt
earnings for manufacturers and retailers, helping create what
the RBA has referred to as a multispeed economy with those
industries lagging behind mining companies.
Lowering the interest rates means less foreign investment because of the low interest, and hence, the demand for the currency will be lowered as well. The currency value may decrease as a result, and making exports cheaper, reducing the trade deficit.
weaker prices for iron ore and coal, the
nation’s two biggest commodity exports.
China's 40% tax imposed since 2008 is a violation of WTO regulations. As such, they have to renew their policy. However, this would raise their exports competitions decreasing FOB price.
This article is about how the Venezuelan government intervenes with the economy by implementing price controls and other regulations. This forces Venezuela to depend more on imported goods and decrease the country's productivity level.
When countries form a free-trade deal, it allows the imports and exports between the countries to grow, because there are less trade restrictions such as tariffs. This means that, with import prices decreasing, aggregate supply in Canada will increase.
Natural Disasters, Latest Natural Disaster News - Aggregate supply rises when weather conditions are stable and well, however the rate of bad weather, such as these fires which are destroying large chunks of land will cause the aggregate supply to decrease.
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In this article it talks about how the shares for GE fell in response to a lower revenue than expected. The fall in revenue of General Electric was caused by a slower than expected growth in the European credit crisis. It says even though GE was making a profit, the slower European market causes them to have a decrease in revenue. They say that because if the credit crisis sales in Europe are not as high and even though people are still purchasing products, the growth at which sales in Europe should have increased are increasing less than what GE wants them to. GE claimed that they are going to change their market footprint through new products and technology in order to increase their revenue and thus increase their shares.
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This article discusses the declining revenues of Connecticut's Gaming industry. As the demand decreases, the revenue begins to drop. The state is looking at new ways to gain revenue, including through online gaming, which a few provinces in Canada have already done successfully.
This article talks of how, in recent years, governments have given more support in agriculture than they used to. However, in the last year the support has decreased. This may be because there are many economy's that have been suffering recently.
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