The EU, which has adopted the common market system comprised of most European countries, is seen affected as a whole by one country's actions, Belgium's dependence on cheap raw materials.

This article mentions a possible tariff to be applied on cheap chinese products in the US. Such protectionism would result in higher prices for consumer, and possible retaliation from China.

This article analyses the economic rationale of Brazil's tariff policy during the first two years of the Plano Real. To this end, a study is made of the changes made in import duties for all the products traded. The tariff reform process in Brazil was begun in 1988, after the old Tariff Act had been in effect for thirty years, and represented a marked intensification in the process of trade openness, with the definition of a schedule of gradually decreasing tariffs which was further speeded up as from 1990.

A group of United States congressmen yesterday sent a letter drafted with their legislative counterparts in Korea to Presidents Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak urging the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea bilateral free trade agreement. The letter calls for restrictions on certain service industries and a revision of provisions on a dispute settlement mechanism involving foreign companies. Beef and auto provisions, the main stumbling block to the ratification of the pact on the U.S. side, were not mentioned.

The objective of this article is to describe how the transformation of the trade and industrialization regime is taking place in Ecuador and what are the systemic factors which condition the realization of this transformation. A long-run perspective of economic policy and growth in Ecuador (considering the whole of the twentieth century) reveals that growth has been relatively fast compared to other countries in the region, with exports as the driving force of that growth

Mortgage payments in the US are starting to be a leak of money, as the government is paying to those retired more than it is earning in taxes. However, these payments cannot cease and a solution will have to be found.

This article talks about Paraguay's tax policies, as it is one of the few countries in the world with no income tax. In addition, it looks like that won't change anytime soon. Lugo claims that such tax would help lowering the crime rate in such dangerous country; however, it seems that senators do not want to pay such tax.

This article esplains how Obama is trying to stimulate the labor market, through creating the necessary conditions for hiring, in order to decrease unemployment. His measures are intended to help the unemployed through stimulating hiring conditions.

Obama has just proposed a plan to privatise the actions of NASA, i.e. release it from government control. The President says this would put astronauts on a more ambitious and sustainable path to the future. Some others believe that this is the death of the nation's space flight program...

This article presents one of the possible outcomes of implementing a business tax, which is great dislike and confrontations from businesses towards the government. Furthermore, the possibility of people losing jobs is still present, and threatens the balance of the economy in general.

In the US, following its slow economic recovery, employment has been going up, people being able to find jobs again, and hearing the the economy is back on foot. However, this has also given people back confidence, and has led them to fell safer when investing, and thus started to invest more, once again. As a result of this increase in demand for loans, interest rates have also increased. The consequences are still unclear.

This article describes how, in the US, even though inflation had been rising during past year, its rate had been slowly decreasing, reaching a number of 2.1%.

This article explains how unemployment is still increasing in the US, how it rose in 30 states, going as high as 14.3% in places such as Michigan. Record-high joblessness is greatly affecting most of the states in the US, having in most an unemployment rate of above 10%.

The article explains the effects of the recession which hit our world, especially concerning the unemployment rate. It shows that unemployment in the UK is at 7.8%, and how government investment is proving the Keynesian curve, through fixing the economy.

As the articles describes the ways in which employment is increasing in the manufacturing sector in the US, it also proves that production is increasing, thus demonstrating the Keynesian view of the LRAS.

This article describes Ahmed's, Somalia's president, intentions to increase the development of the country; this is turning very hard to achieve as the civil war is destroying everything that had been built. Ahmed is now asking foreign countries to help him with is desire to develop the country towards higher standards of living, through first reaching peace.

In this article, China's desire to overcome the crisis through economic growth is shown, as it has increased exports enormously, to increase injections, up to reaching number one in the whole world, on top of Germany.

In this article, Obama's intentions of increasing employment levels and economic growth are being shown through his pressure on banks to increase lending to small businesses.

This article discusses the attempts countries around the world are doing to correct a market failure caused by a negative externality, pollution, which is also casuing severe climate changes around the world, such as global warming.