Economics IB Allen Perry

In the global context of a moderate and uneven economic recovery, sound management of public finances can secure elusive growth and jobs.

The implications of fiscal policy when Greece leaves the Eurozone.

Fiscal Policy and the EU's Economy

This article is about US 's economic growth which is mentioned as below the economists' expectations.

This is a very insightful article that talks about the professions that will stick out or activities that will boom the participator's bank account in the upcoming near future of the growing USA economy.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Wednesday upgraded its growth outlook for the Japanese economy for 2015 and 2016, aided by lower oil prices that are expected to boost global demand.

According to official data, Britain's inflation rate fell to zero last month, setting the stage for a period of falling prices first time in half a century.

Inflation is expected to fall to a fresh record low of just 0.1% when figures are released today, as Britain heads for a period of deflation. A fall in the consumer prices index in February from 0.3% in January would provide a further boost for households already benefiting from falling fuel and food prices.

Australians' standard of living improved in the past year as a rise in the cost of living was outpaced by average income growth, new analysis shows. The cost of a typical basket of goods increased by 1.4% throughout 2014, compared with income growth of 2.7%, according to the report by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Natsem) and analytics provider SAS.

WASHINGTON -- The share of unemployed Americans who receive unemployment insurance benefits has dwindled to its lowest point in decades, thanks in part to benefit cuts in Republican-led states. Just 23.1 percent of unemployed workers received state unemployment benefits at the end of 2014, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington think tank.

In the last year, the most important question for U.S. economists and economic journalists has changed from Where are the jobs? to Where are the wages? It's a problem best summed up by Matthew O'Brien in the Washington Post. As the labor market approaches full employment, there should be more pressure on wages to rise.

This article is about inflation, deflation and their effects on the USA. After a long period of deflation and American economy's struggling period; there has finally been a state where inflation and deflation are not to be worried anymore.

Our modern global economy struggles with the challenge of using limited natural resources without exhausting them. It seems difficult to keep the common privatised and put regulations so that they arent overused by the community. In addition to that it was mentioned that privatisation can lead to the destruction of local economies in some cases

Is the U.S. economy's current expansion past its sell-by date? Will we soon go back to the employment levels we had before 2008, or did the recession do lasting damage? Macroeconomists wrestle with these questions, but usually without much success. I find this article interesting, as it talks about how business cycles are seeming to look outdated, and how the concept should be dealt with in a different than as a cycle.

Economic growth in the US remains on a steady path, according to a markets-based estimate of the macro trend. The Macro-Markets Risk Index (MMRI) closed at +6.8% yesterday (Mar. 9). The benchmark's readings so far this year have remained in a tight band of roughly +5% to +10% - a signal for anticipating ongoing economic growth.

I'm back - and, as you can see from the time of posting, jet-lagged up the wazoo. Also, now I have to deal with matters parental, which means very limited blogging for a while. But I did want to say something about President Obama's new climate initiative - which has, by the way, received weirdly little coverage.

Business Cycle is the fluctuation in economic activity over time and is characterized by four distinct phases- recovery, growth, decline and recession.

By any standard, the global war on drugs has been an abject failure. Since the "war" was declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, we have spent over £1tn trying to eradicate drugs from our societies. Yet the criminal market continues to grow, driving unimaginable levels of profit for organised crime.

This article talks about how AD interferes with respect to AS and causes "disorder". It is interesting how we can blame one of the two for the falling world economy

CALGARY, ALBERTA, Mar 02, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- TransCanada Corporation (TRP) (TransCanada) today announced that it has completed its public offering of cumulative redeemable first preferred shares, series 11 (the "Series 11 Preferred Shares"). TransCanada issued 10 million Series 11 Preferred Shares for aggregate gross proceeds of $250 million through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotiabank and RBC Capital Markets.