Economics IB Allen Perry

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.

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.

Output per capita fell almost 10 percentage points below trend in the 2008 recession. It has since grown at less than 1.5%, and lost more ground relative to trend. Cumulative losses are many trillions of dollars, and growing. And the latest GDP report disappoints again, declining in the first quarter.

This article discusses whether the UPA government is contemplating a return to price controls.The government has apparently decreed that Rs 190 per bag is a fair price, beyond which a higher excise duty and other unspecified consequences will kick in.

NRG Energy, the largest public electricity provider in the US is facing trouble providing enough electricity to power grids because of coal shortage. Coal stockpiles have fallen by 28% and prices have risen by 5.8%. And because oils are becoming more dominant in rail way delivery, coal plants are struggling to stay in market.

This article is about the newest products Apple came out with, the iphone 6 and the iphone 6 plus. It shows how the production of mostly of the iphone 6 plus has been sold out since its debut and that they were not expecting this through there expectations. Now they are accomodating the production lines for the iphone 6 plus.

This article is about increase of demand for iphones after new seizes and innovations on Iphone6

This is an article about how the demand for engineers with 3D printing skills has increased over the past years and that jobs related to 3D printing has increased with it. Of course, the recruitment of those with 3D printing skills has increased as well. I think that we can see the relation between demand and supply in this area as well.

This article is about a bizarre incidence (for nowadays) about commodity markets. The leading copper miners and companşes predict that upon discovery of new resources and invention of new techniques, the supply will outsrip demand.

This is an article on how the house prices have and outstripped the number of properties coming onto the market,in Scotland on account of extreme interest rates.

This article indicates how demand and supply factors function in a market. The demand for houses are increasing therefore prices of the houses are increasing. However as houses cannot be supplied instantaneously there is a lag in the supply of houses.

Bananas have increased in price in India therefore the demand for bananas have decreased while demand for other types of fruits have started to increase. The supply of bananas have decreased due to transportation prices.

This article addresses the demand for oranges in India. As the price of these substitutes of oranges goes up, naturally the demand of these goods go down. The result of the lowered demand of these goods is the rise in demand of the oranges.