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This article talks about Kirk Liefer, a soybeam, wheat and corn farmer who trades his products nationally and internationally. He is in the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program and will travel to Japan in 2016. He has previously traveled to Brazil with the Illinois Farm Bureau's Young Leader Program to learn about global markets. In general the article suggests how International trade enhances culture and how education and travelling is important to understand and work with different nations and consumers.

TOKYO -- Thanks to the efforts of strawberry growers, scallop catchers and others to promote their wares overseas, Japanese exports of fresh food have grown by leaps and bounds, especially in Asia. Japan's January-July exports of farm produce jumped 40% from the year-earlier period to around 18 billion yen ($148 million), according to the agriculture ministry.

The Solar Trade Association has claimed that as many as 27,000 jobs could be lost if the government presses ahead with plans to cut the feed-in tariff by 87% after commissioning analysis by TBR Economic Research.

This article basically discusses what aggregate demand is. It also discusses the factors that make it up and how its a reflection of the economy.

This article by Laura Acavedo talks about interplay of economic factors that help increase demand. The article starts by saying that understanding these factors are important for the growth and future of small businesses. The factors that the article views are Interest Rate Decrease, Decrease in Taxes, International Involvement and Government Expenditures. I think this article is quite helpful for us all, and I would advise everyone in this class to read it :)

A mass protest is being held in the Italian capital, Rome, against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's plans for labour market reform.There are worries that this reform could cause the higher rate of unemployment to increase even more. This intern could have big economic problems for Italy. A high unemployment rate will also meaning an increase in fiscal costs to the government, an increase in social deprivation and also a decrease in the country's output of services and goods.

Mr Tsipras's defiant parliamentary debut as prime minister - underlining a string of spending commitments such as raising the minimum wage in breach of Greece's two €240bn (£178bn) bailouts -will have had Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tearing her hair out in Berlin. The politics in Greece for the last five years was inconsistent and very harsh towards people who were oftentimes protesting and boycotting. The result of this politics has a strong impact on the country's economy, which is very fragile and is still deteriorating by harsh policies, taxation which affect not only Greece but the international market as well.

Besides posing a threat to the international community, Ebola also threatens the small businesses. A small shop, called Bridal and Formal, is one of those shops that is deeply affected by that virulent disease. Since a nurse who lives in Dallas looked for a dress for three hours, the shop is closed until the 4th of October. This information shows that ebola is one of the reasons why demand would decrease for a small business. In order to establish a new market equilibrium point, the quantity of supply in the market will be decreased, therefore the market will be fully affected by a case of Ebola in a particular area.