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This article mentions how Japan's monetary policy has led to the weakening of its currency, the Yen. In other words, this is an example of monetary policy leading to inflation. To do this, the Japanese likely decreased interest rates too much, or increased the supply of money too much. Both of these are the result of loose monetary policy, and were attempts at expansion.

This article talks mainly about several problems affecting monetary policy. Among those are instability to the financial system, a sudden rise in interest rates and inflation. Presently, Fed is using easy monetary policy to increase AD. There is also quantitative easing mentioned in the article, which refers to purchases by the central bank of long-term bonds or $85 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities so that the money supply increases. Again, the major problem related to this Fed strategy is inflationary pressure (also by selling $1.1 trillion mortgage-backed securities)...

This article by Jeff Cox discusses how the Fed is using the monetary policy to increase aggregate demand. It also presents problems affecting monetary policy. The problems are as follows: "Among those concerns are instability to the financial system, a sudden rise in interest rates and inflation."

The article talks about the monetary policies of the central bank in kenya. It also explains the monetary policies so that everyone can understand them.

This brief article describes how the bank of England recently have decided through their Monetary Policy Committee to focus more on growth, after focusing heavily on inflation in the past years. Trade-offs are hopefully increasing growth whilst also maintaining the 2% inflation target.

Welcome back to the wonderfully confusing world of economics. In class we've only scratched the surface of monetary policy and, if there's one thing the world is good at, it's making things so much more complicated than you would imagine. However, as this article says, the FOMC is trying to bring us back to simpler time. They want to make policy decisions clear cut, a 1 step approach for deciding how to act during inflation, deflation, recession, and boom. Not a bad idea, but can they pull it off. I guess we'll find out.

This article talks about RBA monetary policy cuts and how they affect the inflation forecast yet have little to no effect on the predicted GDP of Spain.

The aritcle reviews the financial crisis and their policies and talks about the the IMF

Increasing aggregate demand helps China, which is currently operating with a deflationary gap, to use its economic resources to a greater extent. The increase in real output is an increase in real GDP, so economic growth is currently in progress. However, the current situation is a very fragile one, according to the chief economist at ANZ in China: ""The current economic rebound remains fragile, and could falter with tightened monetary policy conditions." So it is now up to Beijing's monetary policy makers to sustain this economic growth...

Although new jobs are created, there is no improvement on the unemployment rate, which remains at 5.4%. However this is a sign of economic improvement in Australia. And the 71,500 are just a start, more jobs were planed for February (9000). In 2011 Economists have predicted a resource boom, due to the monetary policy by the governor Glenn Steves. The bank has tried to boost certain sectors in the economy, however he kept the interest rates at 3%. That might cut into the current boom and slow it down. The main concern is on the value of the Australian dollar.

Even though there had been a rise in total workforce, unemployment has not improved and remained at 5.4%. Nevertheless, there are optimistic signs of economic improvement for Australia.

The article relates more to monetary policies and demand-side policies but I believe that it can be connected to supply side policies. In fact, the government is spending a lot of money meaning that those money could be invested for supply-side policies. It doesn't say how much money the government will spend, but the increase in government spending could be related to supply side policies and an increase in the supply of products/goods and services.

Now, I'm not much of the political type but, when I saw this title, I have to admit it drew me in. After about the first five or six sentences you can tell this is an article from the far left of the political spectrum (that being the hardcore democrats), but what I found really interesting about this article was how it looked at supply-side policy as this conservative dooms day device, rather than a neutral policy that can be used to anyone's advantage. I still think it is a strategy with its pros and cons, just like monetary or fiscal policy, yet it is interesting to see how it might benefit one social group more than another and how its implementation can lead to many economic issues.

The congress is now thinking about new solutions so that the student loan interest rates won't double.

The article talks about the interest rates set by the Bank of England previously and how those interest rates created an economic growth in the UK.

The article talks about the Marget Thatcher and her monetary policies including fiscal policies. It is a review and comparison to today.

The article I chose is very interesting, it shows the fiscal policies taken by the German government and the effects these fiscal policies have on the country. The author of the article also included diagrams in his article. It was very helpful to the concept illustrated.

As measured by gross domestic product, the Customs Union in its three-member format of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan still appears tiny beside the European Union. The output of the Customs Union states was $US2.3 trillion last year, compared with $US16.6 trillion for the EU, according to the International Monetary Fund. Ukraine's economic output of $US176 billion last year would only modestly bolster the Russian bloc.