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This article is a fairly recent article that talks about international trading. Particularly, it talks about a free trade agreement that will soon be finalised between countries that could potentially represent 1/3 of global output. This free trade agreements seeks to reduce barriers in some countries allowing for easier trade and aims to increase the share of knowledge between the countries, trying to make the knowledge similar to a perfect competition scenario. However this agreement may lead to the alienation of power-house China, a heavily influential country that had not been invited to join the agreement. this could have potential backfires such as trade embargos, but for now we will have to wait and see.

This article talks about the steps being made towards free trade between Asia and Australia.

The current Prime Minister of Australia, Toby Abbott, is currently negotiating with China to potentially open up free trade between the countries. Australia hopes that an agreement will be reached as he plans to travel to the country in early 2014. The goal of opening free trade would be to not only strengthen the relationship between the two countries but also to allow greater economic growth to occur.

This article is interesting as it neatly highlights the benefits of free trade.

This article is very interesting because it broadens the definition of a public good to include social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as other open-source software like Google and Wikipedia. In this case, the free-rider problem would not really be a problem at all.

discusses free trade between south Australia and china

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 article talks about India it was firmly committed to the establishment of a free trade area in south Asia but emphasised that a review of several tariff and non-tariff barriers was necessary to augment formal trade in the region."We are firmly committed towards the establishment of a free trade area in south Asia. The region has a large potential common market and a large skilled low-wage workforce," Minister of State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh said here.There were several tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in the region which should be reviewed to augment formal trade within the region.

This article is interesting because it is an example of trading blocs, but it also talks about how Taiwan is doing this in hopes of creating political stability.

Money has become virtual with the introduction of virtual currencies such as bitcoin and ripple. Through sites such as bitcoin and ripple, which were the forerunners for online currencies, people can invest, transfer and convert money on the web with ease. It is simple and efficient. It is similare to an online bank. Bitcoin producer states that he made bitcoin to provide a more efficient "way to send money around the world". True to his word, it is efficient. A person interested in sending money online can open a bitcoin account. The individual would than transfer the amount of money he/she wishes to send to his account and send it to the designated individual person or place. Of course this transaction is not free, it requires bitcoins. A bitcoin is essentially 1/1000 of a penny. Amazing right. However, virtual currency is not real. If the police and government decide to crack down , the system will have to shut down. But for the most part, it seems they dont have the intention to.

Money has become virtual with the introduction of virtual currencies such as bitcoin and ripple. Through sites such as bitcoin and ripple, which were the forerunners for online currencies, people can invest, transfer and convert money on the web with ease. It is simple and efficient. It is similare to an online bank. Bitcoin producer states that he made bitcoin to provide a more efficient "way to send money around the world". True to his word, it is efficient. A person interested in sending money online can open a bitcoin account. The individual would than transfer the amount of money he/she wishes to send to his account and send it to the designated individual person or place. Of course this transaction is not free, it requires bitcoins. A bitcoin is essentially 1/1000 of a penny. Amazing right. However, virtual currency is not real. If the police and government decide to crack down , the system will have to shut down. But for the most part, it seems they dont have the intention to.

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.

This article discusses the upcoming general election in Ghana and one specific policy at stake: the government funding of education. Much debate has occurred over this idea, and one policy, Senior High School (SHS), aims to immediately begin funding of Senior High School education, while another will hold off government funding until the year 2032. The writer of this article expresses his belief that public education is a public good and therefore the government has the responsibility to provide it free of charge. The sooner public education is provided to children, the sooner the society will develop and become more equal as a result.

This article is interesting because it explores the idea of being able to make a profit from public goods.

This article, written in Ghana, talks about the necessity of education, and how it should be considered a public good and should be provided for free by the government. The author of the article talks about how education changed her life and how it can save impoverished students. However, many of these students do not have access to education, because it is not a free public good.

This article talks about an earthquake and the lack of water available.This article essentially talks about how the demand for water was high but the price remained therefore people with more use for the water werent able to get the resource; it; some needed it for baby formula whilst others for cleaning dishes. The writer argues that if the price of the water was raised, as it was scarce, then people with higher priorities wouldn't mind spending the extra money. Economist Eric Cramption then dismisses an argument against price allocating resources; the poor would get poorer. . 

This article is about the demand for mobile apps. Mobile apps are commonly inexpensive or free and very useful. Matt Greenwell is an app developer and when he started working there were he had 50 colleagues and nowadays there are 300. He says this change occurred in the last year and a half. Apps are cheap and the demand for them when they cost $0 is high, some of them can even be bought for $0. This is what made the market for Apps grow at an exponential rate.

this article explores how china's central bank pledged to push forward with market-driven reforms on interest rates and capital account opening in a pilot free-trade zone set up in Shanghai.

China's central bank has resolved to push market driven reforms on interest rates and capital accounts. Residents will be allowed to do cross-border investments.

I thought that this article was interesting as it showed how geopolitical conflicts can arise from simple wanting to trade freely. The Ukraine feels that it is in their will to be abel to trade with the EU however Russia would luck out on simple regional trading and in seeing this Russia has made it very difficult for Ukraine to trade with Russia.