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This article suggests that the lack of recovery from the recession might lead to weakness in the American business cycle. The potential is not present as it was before the recession, and that is what concerns the author of this article. It will be very interesting to follow the course of the American business cycle (economic growth), and if this article is right, it opens for even bigger Chinese dominance in the economic world.

The article talks about the USA economic growth in 2013, which is surprisingly improving after 2012. However, Bernanke is expressing that the cut the Congress wants to make (like budget costs cuts) would stop and even decrease the slow economic growth the USA is facing.

This article is really interesting, since it talks about possible cuts made by the government in the U.S defense. This is macroeconomic activity since there is a government intervention which would cut thousands of jobs and therefore increase the unemployment in the country. This is a kind of macroeconomic activity which involves the USA defense as the firm and the households which are all of the people working for the defense of the country.

This article discusses the failed prediction from most economist regarding the future of governmental cuts and taxes. The eading is mst interesting, as you get insight to the reasoning behind the prediction, and also the reason why they failed, which is becase the Federal Reserve's unexpected numbers and interest rates.

economists thought higher taxes and government spendings were going to delay economic growth in the first quarter of the year, but economic data has so far proven them wrong.

A large number of people in the USA are moving downtown, therefore there is an increase of demand for the cities downtown. Moreover, with the increase of demand for houses, there is an increase of demand of transportation, shops and other shops and services that are useful for the people that live downtown.