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The Adam Smith Institute has stated that "only supply-side reforms which allow increases to the supply of British housing will truly solve the affordability problem and solve the housing crisis." Access to finance was the reason why the housing crisis ensued in the first place.

Discusses how housing issues in the UK can be solved by using supply-side policies

This article is interesting as it treats the supply-side in relation to the Eurozone crisis. It provides insight to its relation with the economic crisis in Europe

This article is about how New Jersey's state law that states that prohibits businesses from raising their prices more than 10 percent. This law is ruining business after the Hurricane Sandy. There should be a natural price increase due to the fact that there is less supplies, but this law prohibits that so supplies is being drained.

This article is about how pollution is falling off of the EU's agenda, due to the financial crisis. Pollution is a negative externality, and needs to be regulated by the government. This is an example of market failure.

The justice department of the Untied States has filed charges against Standard & Poor's, the largest credit ranking agency, for its involvement in the 2008 financial crisis. The article mentions how our current market, where three large credit agencies have had a sort of monopoly over the market, contrasts with the ideal form of perfect competition (where firms move freely but within certain rules). The author suggests however that the Federal Reserve may have had an equally significant role in the economic collapse, and by not acknowledging its own faults may give off a very poor image to the public.

The tax burden on citizens in Quebec has made Quebec one of the poorest provinces in Canada. As there is not a lot of growth within Quebec, the tax burden is increasing and this causes Quebec's standard of living to drop.

This article is a very recent article, published on the 7th of Feb, and is actually written by Peter Coy, one of the people introduced to us in the "Help Wanted" task. this article in short talks about how people are unemployed and argues the incentive for people to work with the increased unemployment benefits. Furthermore it brings up an interesting point of how they experimented and found out that anybody who has been unemployed for over 6months is likely not to find a job.

This relatively short article is more of a quick overview of the European unemployment situation. We all know about Greece's economic crisis, well this graph allows you to see how truly wide spread this economic disaster has had on europe and other countries. I also recommend looking up a video or two on the subject as this crisis has had a wider spread than most people believe. But sticking to the article, it is very interesting to see how diverse the different rates of unemployment are in the EU.

The article is all about scarcity which is one of the most important problem around the world nowadays. Because of global warning the water resources are less than the previous years if you compare them. Nothing is infinite in the world, all resources are scarce and everybody should take precautions to prevent the rise. The UN is arraying meetings to debate and find ways to save us and our world.

European car makers are learning to reduce the supply of cars they are making. The economy has been on the decline for the past few years and over the last four years, America has learned to cope. They've lessened their supply to meet the demand and they've increased supply in the cars that there was actual demand for. Now, its time for European car makers to learn the same lesson. Instead of simply relying on past models, European car makers have to adapt and learn that the past may not be reliable anymore. Thus, they have to change their business model in order to be successful.

This interesting article from the economist, explains the crisis behind the fact that America is not investing enough in public education. This is a problem due to the fact that the future of the working force depends on the educational system.

This website is very interesting on not just a world scale, because most people have already heard of the food problems in the world, but as well on a local scale. Meaning the article talks about how the average human is contributing to this growing problem.

This article does a really good job at capturing the chain effect of changes in the world. An example is how they talk about how water shortage affects food shortages. People tend to overlook how much one disaster can cause many others.

I agree full heartedly with what Landon has said, as well as what you have said Miro, in regards to the chain affect of changes as well as the fact that understanding problems on a local scale is important. I know that we in Indiana have really been hit hard by drought this year, and we have seen first-hand how the lack of rainfall hurts everyone. The chain reaction of sorts begins with the farmers, who had a horrible growing season in Indy this year, and thus they passed on the cost to the consumer. We are having to pay noticeably more for all grown products this year, and it really is a testament to the harsh reality that is the chain affect that Landon mentioned, as well as a wake up call to all of us here that economic problems exist everywhere, and just because we live in a well developed place doesn't mean we are safe from them.

Investors and traders are betting on an increase in demand of copper in China, the world's largest user of metals. With the upcoming National Day week-long celebrations in China and continuing worries of the European debt crisis, many manufacturers are stockpiling and cutting risk. However, China is expected to announce new plans for economic growth and this, along with signs that future demand may increase, has returned the price of copper to $8175, up about 0.7%.

People in Detroit are arguing that supply side economists did not work in the past and have no reason to work right now either. Detroit is in deep trouble and they are wondering what it was that brought them into this trouble