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Last month, the White House and labor unions announced an agreement to tax high-cost, employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Labor leaders say the proposal is too high a price to pay for the limited health care package they expect to emerge from Congress, therefore, there is really no support for this agreement.

This article discusses how The White House wanted to make its policy on price controls clear to Republicans in Congress, some of whom have been agitating for price controls. The president told Republican House deputy whips last week he would oppose all price controls, but the White House wanted to hit the message even harder.

the article is talking about how ex-president Bush decided not to control the price of energy, although the white house wanted to control energy prices.

This article talks about ZImbabwe, and the hyperinflation they are experiencing at the moment. The inflation has gone so far that the government currently is owner of an amount of Zimbabwe's currency equal to 217 dollars. The economy in Zimbabwe hit rock bottom around a decade ago, after longtime President Robert Mugabe seized white-owned farms, which prompted international sanctions, damaged investor confidence, damaged tourism, and caused other economic problems.

This article offers a short analysis of the Chinese export promotion: outward-oriented strategy to bolster economic growth with some causes for its slowing down. But export promotion is not sufficient to promote development and to ensure the sustainability of the growth-led process. Although China is a star of export- or outward-oriented strategy, there are some possible disadvantages as well, including dependence on foreign demand or worse income equality or environmental degradation as well as undermined care for social safety net. Export-oriented growth is a perfect example in economics that there are no absolutes and that everything is not white nor black but gray.