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This article is concerned with world hunger and what can be done to rectify it. World hunger is, in fact, a problem with scarcity. The human race does not have enough resources to feed every individual. Ergo, food is involuntarily rationed in poorer countries. The article discusses what can and should be done to solve this problem, especially in Africa.

I liked the article it is really interesting because the scarcity of food is a problem and rapidly increase from day to day. Also your explanation of the article is clear and easy to understand and you gave the important points in the article. In my opinion, food scarcity is the worst problem in the world rather than oil scarcity or other resources because food is nutrition it s the only thing that keep people physically strong and especially for countries that are struggling with scarcity and starvation needs to be helped by strong countries and governments.

Many people are lactose intolerant, but this new genetically modified cow looks to solve those problems. If this new "tailless" cow is able to solve the lactose intolerance problem, than the demand for milk will increase, and the demand for soy milk or other milk substitutes will decrease.

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.

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.

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Recent data published in a report shows how increasing climate change over the next several years will affect the melting of glaciers in the Himilayas. It is estimated that, at the current rate of change, by the year 2035 the glaciers will have disappeared entirely. This could worsen an already serious problem of water scarcity in the area, where a lack of drinking water and the means necessary to distribute what little water is present cannot meet the demands of local inhabitants; over 1.5 billion of them.

I think people understand the issue of glaciers, but they don't understand how important it is to act. People don't often think of glaciers as a source of water, but melting glaciers really does affect the amount of potential drinking water especially for inhabitants around the Himilayas.

I agree with Landon. Everyone acknowledges that melting glaciers are a big problem, but no one fully understands what the potential consequences are. For me, it's hard to take action because the problem seems so far away.

This really short article, i think, represents the real world problems of price marketing on a global scale. There is a bit of tension between two country's, West Benegal and India, over the price of coal. India is not cooperating with their usual partner to lower the price, and Benegal thinks that the importing cost is insanely high, thus we have a bit of a problem.

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.

Education is both a public good and a private good. A public good is defined by two characteristics: non-excludability and non-rivalry. Public goods are for everyone and there is no competition for the good. Most people believe that a higher education is a pure public good but it is not. Society benefits when people get a higher. education. Statistically people with a college education tend to be more active citizens and their volunteering.with their volunteering and other activities benefiting those around them. Also statistics have shown that more new products and services are available to society because of the contributions of college graduates. These are the positive externalities of education. The negative aspect of education is  that even though the benefits of higher education are shared the costs for higher education are not shared. A higher education benefits society but the cost of a higher education proves a problem for those that want a higher education. Students themselves do reap some benefits: they are likely to be better off- both financially and otherwise-than their compatriots who do not go to college. However, students do not benefit as much as society. Therefore education is both a private and a public good.

The article is talking about with residential and commercial construction activity at a crawl, having enough aggregate might not seem like a major issue. But experts warn it may be a problem once the economy is back at full steam at. The current rate of consumption, the San Diego region will run out of aggregate sand, gravel and crushed stone in about 8 1/2 yearsOne of the problems here is that the county has an extreme shortage of high- quality sand.

This article suggests that policymakers should worry more about restoring economic growth and lowering the unemployment rate before worrying about inflation. It says that there will be no inflation "as long as growth remains depressed and unemployment high."

Few have not experienced the uncomfortable experience of circling city blocks for a parking space. Researchers at Xerox have designed algorithms and implemented dynamic parking systems in Los Angeles that change the way we park. Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography-the design and implementation [...]

This article talks about the oil price, how experts sets the oil price that there won't be a shortage problem in future. People they would prefer low prices but consumers firstly think of the benefit that they get from this business and also about the development of oil producing, for that they need more money that causes growth of prices. That's why they are trying to find an equilibrium price of oil, which will comply everyone's requirements.

The article talks about the affect of the imposing tax on medical devise industry, that is not profitable at all. The future of medicine will get worse, because they won't be able to buy advanced technology ect. By imposing tax on medical devise industry may cause a lot of problems, which are mentioned in the article.

This article shows us a case with externally , tell us about positive and negative externalities of production and gives examples to explain the difference between them. Shows the case when the outcomes are not always beneficial and what must be done to solve those problems.

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 article talks about the organic milk shortages, that farmers can't buy enough food to feed their caws because the price for their food has been increased, as a result they give less nutrition to their caws and get less milk. But demand for organic milk is still high and in the article they will some suggestions how to solve that problem.

The demand for organic milk is greater than supply because the production cost of creating organic milk is greater than the revenue. The reason for the shortage is that the cost of organic grain and hay has gone up but the price farmers receive for milk has not. As a result farmers buy less grain and hay which lowers the production of milk. The low supply of organic milk than in turn increases the overall price. The solution for this issue would be to increase the price of income the farmers would receive for their milk. If the solution were applied, the farmers would pay more for organic grain and more milk would be produced and consumers would be satisfied.

The primary reason unemployment remains high is a lack of demand. An aggregate demand shortfall is exactly the kind of problem monetary policy can address. Thus, we need powerful and continuing monetary stimulus to move toward maximum employment and price stability. The following is adapted from a presentation by the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to The Forecasters Club in New York, New York, on February 21, 2013.

This article discusses the delicate balance between fiscal and monetary policy. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Eric Rosengren, blames inefficient fiscal policy on the little-effect monetary policy is having on the economy. He argues that tight fiscal policy, or contractionary strategies, are making it more difficult for the Federal Reserve to lower the unemployment rate. However, it is important to understand that monetary or fiscal policy is not better than the other. Instead, it is likely to take a combination of strategies to combat problems in the economy.

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.