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In this article, the writer states that people should trust government iflation numbers. However, I do not agree with the article because government plans everything according to politics and economics.

Excellent article, Ozge, and I agree with you, maybe we should trust our pockets more than the government numbers when it comes to inflation.

This article talks about how the inflation rate in UK has increased rather than decrease (which was what they were expecting). It is said that the inflation occurring mainly due to the increasing oil prices.

A good example of an external shock on SRAS

Brazil's exchange rates are rising, probably due to a decrease in interest rates.

The article discusses a situation where Brazil is dealing with high levels of inflation. Assumptions are that this is happening as a result of declined exchange rates.

Brazil deals wtih high inflation, which is occured probably as a result of declined exchange rates.

How people are investing in commodities because the value of money is decreasing.

Maybe commodities prices are rising due to increase in demand for them as economies recover from recession?

The article is about the high inflation rate. The rate is disputed and the validity is called into question. It will also affect the elections.

Normal to question government numbers with elections coming!

Bloomberg reports on the change on value of the Brazilian Real and all the motivating factors behind it.

Competition among firms that choose to differentiate their products by nonprice means, for example, by quality, style, delivery methods, locations, or special services. Nonprice competition is often practiced by firms that desire to differentiate virtually identical products. In this one the product is food.

due to increase in price, things are getting more expensive and leading to luxury items.

due to inflation pressure, production has slowed down.

Sounds like prices of raw materials might be increasing faster than demand for goods.

Due to drops in the prices of food and non-alcoholic drinks, the CPI in the UK has decreased from 4.4% in February to 4% in March.

That's good news for the UK consumer!

The article is discussing the effect on recent in events in Egypt on their exchange rate. The exchange rate has devalued drastically in the last year and economists say that a further devaluation will almost be inevitable, as it is likely to cause a very bad inflation as well as further social unrest. The reason for the devaluation in the currency is reduced demand for the currency, for example there are much fewer tourists in Egypt now that have been before.

The article is about the high growth rate in India and high inflation rate.

In this article it is stated that "Factory output and capacity utilization are still rising. The low levels of capacity utilization are one of the key reasons that inflation has remained low, and is not much of a threat in the intermediate future" This could suggest the presence of Keynesian economics and how the firm still has capacity to increase output.

This article talks about the rise in interest rates (by the Reserve Bank of India) to tackle the rising inflation rate.

Chief executive says consumer confidence is 'consistently low', although the chain benefits from shoppers looking for quality

Shows how important 'consumer confidence' is for the AD.

productivity may be affected because of job satisfaction

I just took a look at this article and this article is not about business cycle as it says in the article, "It is not about the business cycle or one grumpy generation". This is more about inflation if I had to pick one topic.

This article is about savings of Americans less and earnings of America a lower minimum wage - in real, or inflation-adjusted, terms - than at nearly any other time since 1950.

The article is about the increase in interest rates to control inflation