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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 is about how analysts have revised the predicted economic growth rates of Mexico for 2015 and 2016, and have downwarded these. The article contains a lot of raw data and not so much about why they actually downwarded the economic growth forecast.

This articles talks about how every EU country's economic growth production and crucial is to the Euro-zone for enhancing the continent as a whole. However, Germany which is of course, one of the EU's leading country in economic growth is now declining constantly. This is will reduce general aggregate supply in EU.

I think this article is really interesting as this is a current economic problem that could affect me as i live in the uk which is also part of the EU. A danger is that if the german economy slows then this could be damaging for the UK's net exports. We currently Germany biggest trade partner. The likelihood would be that consumer spending would lessen as consumer confidence and expectations of the german economy would decrease, consequently this could mean that Germany will import less from the UK and this potentially having consequences for the UK's AD and economy.

This Article talks about Michigan and its need for economic growth. If the state wants to increase economic growth they need to star with higher incomes. This articles outlines how Michigan has to achieve this growth.

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

UK service sector has shown immediate growth for the first quarter of the year.

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

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 :)

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.

"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.

Prices for oil, an inelastic product, have decreased leading to a decrease in revenue for the producers, leading to concerns that this might have more widespread economic ramifications in the future.

This is not an article but a blog entry in The Economist. I wanted to share this becuase the author has very interesting views on the correlation between energy use and ecoomic groewth. While most of us see economic growth as a reason to increase energy consumption the author here begs to differ.

This article talks about the outdated thinking of China and Germany and suggests that a new way of thinking and a new plan will help boost economic growth in the two countries.

This article describes the slowing down of China's economic growth and proposes analysis about the phenomenon.

This article is about if economic uncertainty make you save more - or spend more. It suggests how the answer may depend on your childhood experience and explains why poverty can sometimes be difficult to escape.

This article, by The Time, is considered with the idea that whether economic uncertainty make you spend more or not. The author directly suggests that it depends on the childhood experiences that you went through. Therefore, the article shows how two experiments proved that poverty is hard to escape. The participants in the experiments were forced to make 20 decisions which include a decision between recieving $30 right now or $41$ later. They later proved that poor ones take the money immediately where as the rich ones take the money after.

The UK's economy grew at a faster pace than initially estimated last year, revised official figures show. The economy grew by 0.6% in the final three months of 2014, up from the previous estimate of 0.5%, the Office for National Statistics said.

India economy is expected to grow 7.5% in the upcoming 2015-2016 fiscal year, which begins in April, up from 7.2% in the current fiscal year. This means India would be the world's fastest growing large economy.

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.

This article suggests how individual quotas were introduced due to the overfishing in the sea, which were aimed to better the situations. The individual quotas awarded the fisherman the right to catch a certain percentage of the total annual allowable catch. However, these tradable quotas caused great economical and ecological harm as big cooperations bought a majority of the shares. The article shows the different incentives taken by citizens and individual fishing operators and their associations to solve this problem.

The linked article talks about the macroeconomic policy devised by the new Saudi king, as a counter-measure against the recent economic crisis.