M2016 Economics SL Mr. Friedman

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.

This article explores how the use of supply side policy has not helped improve poverty rates.

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

Imagine you're a newly minted college graduate just into your first job and renting a modest one-bedroom apartment. Now imagine that - because you deserve nice things - it's mandated that a high-end interior decorator will transform your humble dwelling into a feast for the senses.

REUTERS/Jason Reed TOKYO (Reuters) - Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that monetary easing alone is not enough to end deflation and push up prices. "The deflationary mindset that has beset Japan for such a long time won't change suddenly. But we've seen some changes in the past two years, which is significant," Aso told parliament.

This article talks about Britain and how unstable the economy there actually is in the current times.

This short article suggests how monetary policies alone cannot push up prices and end deflation. He suggests that this is as "the deflationary mindset that has beset Japan for such a long time won't change suddenly."

The German finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble talks about expansionary monetary and dept financed fiscal policy not being the answer to economic growth.

This article discusses what the German Finance Minister talked about, which is that he warns Germany about their Fiscal policy, as their policy seems to be causing instability in the German economy. Therefore, continuing with the current fiscal policy would result in up and down cycles repeatedly.

This article talks about how the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has been over optimistic and his talk isn't particularly strong. His words were not true and the economy grew less than hoped.

This is a good article highlighting dangerous that German debt could lead to the economy. Furthermore, the article addresses the latest Greece's claim of reparation from Germany.

This is an opinion page about a draft statement on fiscal policy written by Brad DeLong. It is about "rethinking macroeconomics" and argues that the government should be substantially bigger than in the past. The author argues that people do not make good choices if they can choose what to spend their money on (for example self-invested retirement) and that education, health care etc. should be fincanced by the government through fiscal policy.

Advanced economies face the triple threat of low growth, low inflation and high debt. In this article there is the belief that economies should have effective fiscal policies to prevent this from happening. "Smart taxation and spending and strong fiscal frameworks make a huge difference."

This article features China's new fiscal policy to keep its economy from slowing down. China will increase government expenditures!

The budget control act is being edited. They are deciding what to do with budget caps and how to control them. The senate made a base for the rest to work of off but not everyone is on the same terms.

NAIROBI-Plunging oil prices, sluggish growth in the developed world and a slowdown in China's pace of industrialization will bring down sub-Saharan Africa's growth rate this year to its lowest in two decades, the World Bank said Monday.

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.

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

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 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.