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This article discusses the declining threat of further economic downturn for the United States...a recession is one of the things that can be considered when looking at a macroeconomic level...

This article concerns the 'simultaneous' rise of the unemployment and inflation rate in the UK. This goes against the Phillips curve; which shows an inverse relationship between the two.

This article is about how the UK's recession is continuing and it talks about how even though the tax revenue has increased this year, the spending continues to rise.

Unemployment is one of the indicators used to look at a country's macro-economy. The low unemployment in Germany leads economists to believe that the economy is recovering, meaning it is going through the "recovery" stage of the business cycle - a positive thing for a country after a global recession.

Venezuela's ports were nationalised in 2010 during a recession. However, now especially during the festive period imports have almost doubled. This has caused a large build up in the ports. Venezuela have just joined the trade bloc, Mercosur. This will cause a larger increase in imports due to the removing of trade barriers. Therefore, the poor infrastructure must be improved. A new container terminal has been suggested to try to cope with this.

This article discusses the imminent increase in unemployment as 100,000 public sector jobs are going to be cut. This seems to be "cyclical unemployment" as the job-cuts are due to a recession rather than permanent structural unemployment.

This article from the Financial Times regards fiscal policies in different EU countries. After the double-dip recession that has been experienced in Europe, many governments' fiscal policies are coming into question and being scrutinized by American commentators.

This article is about how the falling prices may not be good news for everyone. It may mean that jobs are harder to get when businesses don't want to employ more people. It may symbolise the fact that a recession is about to happen or is happening.

This article discusses the current "Occupy" protests which are taking place worldwide, and how the effect which they are having. The protesters are pushing to government to expand the budget of the government so that more goods can become public goods, like health care, for example. The article also discusses how protesters stood outside malls pleading for consumers not to purchase goods however if that were to happen, the economy would obviously sink back into recession.

Hey, This article is about how the current economic climate is affecting many industries in the eurozone and how this may be making our situation worse in the long run as less money is being fed into the economy. Hannah

because of the the high debts of europe, US export will mostly rise in 2012. In addition to this, the declining dollar index and rising wages of emerging economies has made U.S. goods cheaper abroad.

This artcile concerns the big American beer companies, and states that how in a time of economic recession and with beer sales slumping, how the big companie re maintaining high prices, and that quite simply the smaller companies cannot compete with these powerhouses in alcoholic drinks industries anymore.

Not only is there an opportunity cost for the designer, but the people spending this money on the jewelry have the opportunity cost for other large items - such as a vacation or new computer!

I commented on this article, and now on my screen above it says shared by Monique T... just to clarify, Lola posted the article, not me.