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just a quick article on the advantages and disadvantages of implementing another african monetary union in the east of the continent. There is a problem in africa at the moment where there are already 3 other monetary unions in africa and they wish to implement another.

Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, warned Kenya that the East African Community Monetary Union "should be the last thing Kenya gets into."

Maltese is selling passports to members of other countries to have access to the EUs custom union. This may lead to trade creation and we would expect people to buy the passport for such a reason. However this could also lead to trade diversion and so people will have to factor in this with their decision to either join this monetary union.

A recent agreement between Canada and the European Union has created a free-trade condition between the two countries. The action is intended to have beneficial effects for both parties, including new jobs and additional demand for businesses in Canada. In addition, it is likely to reduce the country's dependency on the United States, with which it has traded freely since 1987. People hope that this agreement will eventually lead to a larger free-trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, but not much progress has yet been made.

The School Bus strikes are turning into disrespectfuk and irresponsible incident by New York bus Drivers. The tensions are rapidly increasing and causing a great problem for parents and students. The city provided parents and students MetroCards and paid to taxis and car services for access to public transportation.

This article discusses the common trade-off between unemployment and inflation. In Europe, the Central Bank is expected to lower interest rates, a monetary policy strategy, in order to aid with the current issue of low inflation and high unemployment. Decreasing interest rates has the general effect of increasing Aggregate Demand in an economy, and according to the relationship between these two aspects of macroeconomics this increase is likely to increase inflation while also reduce unemployment as real output increases.

The Chinese government has been unfairly implementing subsidies for solar panel companies within China. Thus, the companies have been able to sell their Solar panels at costs that are lower than the cost to manufacture such items. This has caused European companies to ask for intensified investigation from the European Union. However, Europe is reluctant to go at a trade war with China and thus, the situation is gridlocked. Too many companies would suffer from direct war.

This article mainly considers the idea that perhaps the european union necessitates reforms to increase demand, however because of their existing economic policies relying too heavily on supply side economics its would be "counter productive" and overall worse.

According to the Bertelsmann Foundation, "a free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union... would mean more than 9,000 jobs and an estimated 138 percent increase in state exports to the EU." The negotiations have been stalled because of the government shutdown in the U.S.