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This article is interesting as it reveals some extremely negative aspects of not having the motivation to find a new job due to strong unemployment benefits. This is interesting because it mixes economics with the behavior of humans, making for an interesting explanation.

Obama has mentioned that he will set a price control on the college education. With the increased price of universities and colleges, students are finding it increasingly more difficult to attend college. Therefore Obama has set out to confront this problem. He proposed to make permanent the American Opportunity tax credit. Colleges have to either lower their tuition rate or accept the fact that with higher tuition rates they will have lower funding from the governments.

Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said that the economy should be left alone in order for the "automatic stabilizers to work." He said that the "government's plan to aid home buyers shouldn't become permanent."