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This is an article which explains the link between economy and politics. How these two are related and why politics is causing some of the economic problems which are present in the world at the moment. The Article explains the worldwide problems within economies and how this might be related to politics.

This article discusses macro economics and suggests that political change has lately overweight economic change. The article gives the example of Greece, where a new president was elected but economic change has not yet happened as planned. It also mentions the GDP of countries such as the UK or the US.

This article talks about the conflict between both Politics and economics. As the price of oil in America has decreased, some believe that there is an opportunity to increase the "gas tax". In this article they believe that this tax generated from this increase could be beneficial to the economy and could help improve infrastructure and making investments.

"Central banks have been forced onto a policy path that is far from ideal - not least because they increasingly risk inciting some of the zero-sum elements of an undeclared currency war...." The article talks about how the divergence of monetray politics in three biggest economies (eurozone, japan and US) and unpredictable monetary policy central banks are pursuing affects economic growth.

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.

In his article, Roberto De Vogli, discusses how obesity is a kind of market failure. Aapart from the comon view that obesity is "an effect of specific individual and lifestyle choices," Roberto De Voglie argues that "the problem is largely a byproduct of deeper political and economic changes in society.". Apart from discussing the reasons for this failure, he propeses a solutions. He says an ulta-processed food tax" must be introduced on fast foods and the revenue coming from this tax must be used as a subsidy fruits, vegetables and healhty foods.

Obama released a new budget in hopes that others would finally agree with him...

I think this article is relevant because it's about Greexe tying to bring its economy back on track but the political issues with a large cash injection

This article explores how supply-side economic policies in place in US is expected to end depression.

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.

Billionaire real estate investor Jeff Greene faced some harsh criticism after reports last week that he said America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted, but Greene insisted to CNBC Wednesday that he was "completely misquoted."

This article gives information about Egypt's current situation by analysing its GDP% increase in every year. It can be seen that GDP increase dipped into 2% with the arrival of political uprisings. The government hopes to restore its economy by the help of Foreign Direct Investments, which the Egyptian government currently lacks.

This article discusses how Bangladeshes economic growth has declined due to prolonged political unrest. This unrest has also has hindered " the country's investment environment". Frequent strikes, violent outbreaks, and a nationwide transport blockade have weakened the country's sovereign export performance.

The article I posted explains how the new government in Greece would respond to the economic crisis in its country. I found this article relevant because Greece is planing to fire up the government spending so that the short-term problems will be alleviated.

This article talks about the political lobby of tobacco firms to keep the government from intervening in tobacco market.

This article about the difficulties that Chinese government is facing money keeps flowing out from the country.

This particular article conveys information about China's issue of having its money flown out. In 2014 the difference reached 5 billion yuan.

This article talks about EU members taking a strong stance about Greece and it's debt, saying that if Greece doesn't accept the EU Aid Program, Greece will be "over". This comes as a toughening against Greece's debt situation, as the EU wants a strong economy and is being dragged down by Greece.