M2016 Economics SL Mr. Friedman

This article talks about how the guardian feel that George Osborne has failed to achieve a satisfactory inflation rate. There is an inverse relationship between inflation rate and aggregate demand. If interest rates are high then there is an increase in the cost of borrowing for the consumer. As well when interest rates are there is a higher return from savings in banks.

The ECB vice-president has launched a staunch defence of the central banks's quantitative easing programme, saying large-scale asset purchases were necessary to counter Europe's problem of insufficient demand. Speaking at the Cambridge Union in

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.

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

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.

This article discusses the debate to whether the government should impose even crueler taxes and cut public spending to earn more money.

The article explains the fears that the Reserve Bank of India are facing due to inflation increase. The article is pretty simple to read and grasp.

This article talks about how the falling oil prices can push the inflation level to its lowest ever and how that might imapact economies generally. It is reported that the low oil prices are reducing the level of inflation.

WASHINGTON - After a long and lumpy recovery, the world economy may finally be at a turning point with global growth expected to accelerate this year behind the rising strength of the U.S. and other major developed countries.

Countries like England and the United States have decided to come together to bailout the Ukraine economy each pledging two billion dollars, as well as the IMF fund will grant a bailout. The collapse of one economy will have a domino affect in the world wide economy so it is sensible for these world powers to intervene.

This article discusses the reasons why people aren't worried about a bad Q1 GDP despite the fact that it's the first negative GDP in 2 years

Furman says that just because the US is growing its economy doesn't mean the rest of the world can slack off and rely on them, the US is not going to be able to save the rest of the world's economy. Other countries need to boost consumption and they have the resources to do so.

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

"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.

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

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 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.

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 discusses how monetary and fiscal policy should be used to solve problems of recession and depression in economies.

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.