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Although the United States' problem of mounting fiscal deficits has become common knowledge in recent years, several prominent economists have advocated for additional spending so that the current economic recovery does not sputter. Others on the other hand claim that "In the real world, any increase in government spending is going to further worsen the debt/gross domestic product ratio, meaning debt service will become more and more costly, eventually reaching a point when it is unsustainable…The United States is fast reaching the point of unsustainability - hence there is no real choice but to greatly reduce government spending."

This article talks about the nowadays of the keynesian believes

This article states that Californian households were greatly affected by the Great Recession. 67.5% of Californian households saw their net worth fall, while the overall is 62.5% in the United States. Also, median decline in West was 27%, while national median was approximately 18%.

This article is about the change in prices in "Walmart" market over last year. This is the chain of markets in the United States, which has changed prices many times over last year and this article simply talks about it.

This article discusses how G.E. will begin selling jet parts and technology with China which would result in a huge financial gain. The concerns are though that by releasing this technology to china they could produce the goods for cheaper and hurt the United States and that they could develop a stronger military aviation program which could hurt our own military.

This article discusses various points of data that display the inflation in the United States. This includes data about the producer price index and how oil prices affect the market.

This article discusses a problem that can arise from international trade. The US is upset because China, among other countries, has been exporting vast numbers of solar panels to the United States. This has crippled the US' solar panel industry causing companies to ask Obama to formalize a complaint.

An article from the economics section of The Economist on free trade. It focuses on America's lost decade and the role of liberalization of trade in it.

Ever since the stagflation that followed the Keynesian economic policies in the 70s, the notion that government planning is our best bet at bringing back the economy has faded away. However, in recent years, Keynes's ideas are being implemented once again in the form of Keynesian style of fiscal policy

This article is about how the supply side within the United States has changed since the Deepwater Horizon incident last year and the recent earthquake in Japan. These two disasters that occurred within 1 year of each other are estimated to affect the US economy for over 10 years at the least.

This article is about the dependence of Mexico's economy on U.S. monetary policy. Mexico's peso may decline against the dollar, if US government tightens its monetary policy. "Once the United States starts to have a more constrained monetary policy ... it is to be expected that many of the flows that are arriving in Mexico will no longer arrive ... but this is not something we think could seriously affect the Mexican economy". These are the words of Mexico's finance minister Ernesto Cordero.

This articles describes the strained relationship between the United States and Mexico because of their respective protectionist policies. There is talk of both countries decreasing or completely removing these policies to allow for better trade within each country. This would decrease domestic trade and increase exportation between countries. Unemployment would decrease due to the increased trade between countries.

The U.S. accuses China of dumping solar panels into the United States on very low cost due to government subsidies. Therefore the seek for tariffs of more than 100% of the whole sale price of the solar panels that come from China.

This article highlights a free trade deal between many south American countries and the united states which apparently will increase labor standards there.