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The political instability in Russia has not affected its bank rates. The Romanian central bank has not changes its main interest rate despite of the resigning of the government. The banks interest rate will stay at 1.75% and many believe that it will be able to survive the political instability in the country. Romania is the EU's second-poorest nation and the political situation could possible affect assets prices and delay making monetary policy in the country. The economy Romanian central bank keeping its intre

A trend is shown where global interest rates gone "relentlessly downward over the past few decades". The rich are getting richer, leaving the rest of the group with less wealth. In addition to that, the rich have a "lower propensity to consumer", this has caused the aggregate demand to fall. It has been noticed that central bank rates have also "trended progressively lower". A conclusion has been made in the article that "as long as wealth and income inequality continue to widen, there will be a savings surplus."

India's central bank kept its key lending rate unchanged on Tuesday, leaving the door open for more easing but making that dependent on meeting a challenging inflation target f‎or 2017.

This article describes how the events in Paris affected the economic growth. This illustrates how more factors than taxes and employment can make a difference in level of economic activity. A decrease economic activity might cause the government to intervene by reducing the interest rate, creating incentives to increase consumption. A demand-side policy like this could help the economy get back on its course.

The economy has been improving since it's last recession from 2007-9, but believes that the next recession is soon to come. Still no completely recovered they're afraid of the next recession, so in order to prepare/recover faster they believe that interest rates must stay low and that fiscal policy has to do more of the work for economic stability.

This article although an opinion piece is made up of many subtitles, the one I chose to focus on is Roosting chickens and Fed Bashing, It talks about how Druckenmiller keeps predicting economic dooms due to rising interest rates since he closed his business. Personally I feel this is like the quote we got that says, "looking at statistics...to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him", this article is about Krugman using his on look on statistics to see if Druckenmiller's predictions are accurate since some can say they were and others can say they weren't. Krugman gathers his knowledge from past experiences with 2008 crash and The Great Depression; with my own knowledge of the Great Depression and things that contributed to it's solution this drives me to say that government intervention and spending are what's needed to fluctuate the economy ( hence why people argue WWII was the real solution to the Depression due to it's massive spending).

This article discusses global economic growth. For the past several years, aggregate GDP growth has been around 3-3.5% per year, with similar levels of inflation. Growth trends in major economies have slowed and a gap between global aggregate demand and supply for goods/services persists. There is an excess of global supply relative to global aggregate demand. The article claims that falling oil prices, low interest rates, and monetary accommodation are responses to the issue of excess supply.

This article, published on November 30, 2015, describes how the US GDP growth (that is, economic growth) has been slowing in recent months. The article also describes fiscal drags on the economy, interest rates, and investment in US companies.