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This article is about Zimbabwe's need to sell diamonds in order to service debts to the IMF.

This article describes the slow recovery Citigroup is going through after the "recent near-death experience" it suffered; this was due to the increasing costs of production which brought negative returns and started to create debts, almost deleting all budget. It is rising again thanks to a subsidy offered by the government.

This article from the Wall Street Journal describes the economic problems faced by Greece and the effect on the European Union because of the 2007-09 financial crisis. It was recently revealed that the last government of Greece left a huge amount of hidden debt, hidden with the help of Goldman Sachs. The Greek economy has since moved into a recession.

The article mentions about United State's debt expanding like a baloon, soon to blow up and fail the economy. During a recession, the govenrment must keep on running the economy even at budget deficit so they must keep on borrowing money. Yet, these loans must be returned in some way, and article reports a possible higher tax coming soon to compensate the loans.

This article is talking about Spain cutting some of its costs because they will still be in recession for another year. the negative externalities of doing this could be people losing their jobs, and Spain going into an even deeper recession.

Sara, this can not count as a megative externality, methinks.

This article is about how Greece has formally asked for a rescue package for its heavily indebted economy. This should help reduce Greece's debt, which will in turn reduce interest rates. This will increase consumer spending and stimulate aggregate demand.

International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide aid for Portugal who is experiencing a sovereign debt crisis.