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According to statistics of various communities in Naples, Florida, the housing market of that area is beginning to take a change. Many areas are beginning to shift in the amounts of real estate available versus the demand for this housing. Due to the concepts of the price mechanism, when less housing is available than what is demanded the price of real estate will increase, signalling what is possibly the recovery of the economy.

The housing market really is a complicated idea. It seems that the more governments foreclose houses, the more the are hurting the economy. This makes it very hard to better the housing market.

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 talks about the lack of government involvement in setting the limit of the price of houses. However, it seems that it is necessary to have control over the price of houses as the prices sky rocket.

This article talks about how major publishing companies are planning on merging in order to combat the very different marketplace of books. Random House and Penguin's merge has further narrowed the amount of major publishers that are left in the market.

The Congress is preparing to cancel subsidy for corn ethanol and the tax break for oil companies. The tax credit deepened the budget deficit. It also raised corn price and food price as farmers started to replace other crops with corn. However the House of Representatives won't pass any law that would end the subsidy because their paymasters want the subsidy to keep the demand up.

The article is talking about the strengthening housing recovery and robust auto sales contributed to moderate growth across the United States.Employers added only 88,000 jobs in March, a sharp slowdown from average gains of 220,000 in November through February. And consumers cut back on their spending at retail stores and restaurants last month, a sign that higher Social Security taxes have made more Americans cautious about spending.Debate was about Fed policymakers about when to rein in the bond-buying program, which began last fall.The Fed is expected to stick with plans to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent. And it will likely continue purchasing $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds to lower long-term rates and encouraging more borrowing.

House Representative John Mica of Florida, my home state, is planning to introduce legislation to Congress to address what he considers to be Amtrak's monopoly over passenger-rail service. The legislation would aim to increase competition in this industry, not end Amtrak itself. Mica is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and hopes that Congress will consider federal rail policies later this year.

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.

The article is talking about the federal government which has shut down today because of an impasse over the budge and in two weeks, the nation is set to hit its borrowing limit.The major problem in the articles is that there is an oversupply of global labor, an oversupply of global productive capacity and an oversupply of global capital. The jobs created low wages and part time. Growth in domestic manufacturing is still slow which will prevent the development of a country in their own production and prevent the large amount of profit they will get as a result of the domestic production.Business spending has fallen, rents of the houses falling where home prices have increased. The reason why its hard to get out from the rut is because they are no longer faced with a world in which supply-side economic remedies, easy money, reduced taxation, fiscal belt-tightening and deregulation can spur new capacity and the creation of well-paying private sector jobs.Countries that were recently poor find themselves with huge surpluses and sovereign wealth funds. The rich countries of the world, while still rich, struggle with monumental levels of debt, both private and public, and unsettling questions about whether they can compete globally.Also to clear this mess,developed nations need to put the huge surplus of underemployed workers back to work by any means, including big public sector investments to improve infrastructure and competitiveness.Moreover, a new economic multilateral ism with the developing world, to encourage them to re balance their economics away from savings and toward consumption, while we in the West must curb our addiction to credit and consumption is necessary.