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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 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.

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.

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.

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 how the government is aiming for a federal budget surplus this year, and how the government needs the states to ease fiscal policy to do so. The goal is more public spending.

This is an article about a statement that the world bank said. The bank essentially referenced how the Ukraine already has a fiscal policy but the could improve growth by making it tighter.

Fiscal policy is the set of policies relating to government's spending and taxation rates. Military spending is a part of government spending and is closely related to domestic industries, particularly in the U.S. The U.S. government is lowering the military budget, therefore decreasing aggregate demand both through government spending and through implications to other industries interwoven with military. So this is deflationary fiscal policy, which is reducing U.S. military power on a global scale.

04/15/2013| 02:55am US/Eastern Recommend: Press release 15 April 2013 Ministry of Finance The global financial and debt crisis is now in its fifth year. The Government is continuing to counter the weak economic situation with a responsible fiscal policy for jobs and stability.

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.

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.

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

Everybody has an opinion and I for one understand this debt crisis very little. It's not that I don't think it's important, it's that I'm very vague on who exactly we owe money to, what the current plan is to pay it off, and why everyone else is up in arms about this. The econ modules in the textbook section this week said that, sometimes, the government *wants* the budget to be at a deficit. I still don't understand why but, my guess is, the US's current situation is not a good demonstration.

The article talks about the importance of budget planning and spending.

This article talks about Britain and its problematic exports with subsequent trade deficit problems. Interestingly enough, university courses fees are considered exports as well (money inflow). Britain is a country which is immensely integrated in the global trade flows, but they have a problem of trade deficit. "Part of the reason is the slowdown in continental Europe and America, which take 54% and 17% respectively of British exports. Another is the gradual depletion of North Sea oil and gas. A third is that Britain's strength is in services rather than in the raw materials, machine tools and handbags that emerging markets crave." This running trade deficit can amass huge problems and according to the article [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10427783/Britain-to-have-worst-2014-trade-deficit-in-industrial-world-on-EU-forecasts.html] Britain will have to tackle it by using expenditure-reducing policies, expenditure-switching policies or supply-side policies.

The article talks about a policy of the EU relating to the topic.

I totally agree with you, Olaf

The Nigerian government is trying to protect its local industries, and to do this, it is planning to implement more flexible trade policies. For example, the article talks about how for one period, tariffs will be capped at 4% rather than 2.5%, this gives the government more flexibility, so that it can adequately judge the needs of its industries.

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.