In this nes article it talks about the great problem that Spain is facing in the recession regarding unemployment. They do mention that even though unemployment has dropped from 27.2% to 26.3%.through this we can see that maybe some figures with regard to unemployment could be seasonal as the unemployment figures dropped during strong tourist season. Neverhteless most of the people without jobs have been unemployed for over a year which means that a lot of this unemployment is cyclic, which we can see as spain is in the middle of a terrible recession. Even though the Spanish economy is starting to experience slight profit and growth, they do experience long term issues in regard to the high youth unemployment that is at 56%.

Recently regarding the current change in the governments to attempt and reduce the gas emissions, the UK government has started taking action regarding the taxation of the cars. In order to try and promote the more green efficient cars and the hybrids that emit below 130g/km of CO2 will pay nzero on the first year road tax and for the cars that emit less that 100 g/km will also pay zero on road tax. Moreover, in order to discourage people from demanding less of the more heavy emitting CO2 cars such as big SUV the government will start taxing much more heavily those cars. They also will start changing the road tax, they will charge them according to their emissions. In conclusion the lower the emissions the cheaper the tax will be ultimately making the consumers shift their demand from the larger or higher CO2 emitting cars towards the more green and low CO2 emitting cars.

The reason for why the Canadian government started to stockpile on maple syrup is because considering that the market for the maple syrup is very dependent on the weather and how much sap comes out of the maple trees they will stock pile and get more back- ups. The reason for this is that the Canadians are expanding their market into more regions having more than 70% of the maple syrup market and they are attempting to expand it so in order to keep the demand on maple syrup rising they will use their backups in case there isn't enough. They are making sure that there is always enough maple syrup for the market. They don't want to create a demand and then have a bad season leading to them not being able to supply. For example in 2008 when they started having failed harvests their supplies ran short which lead to the prices going up from 2.40 Canadian dollars to 4.00 which lead to several producers to be priced out of the market because of their inability to supply. Which is why they have reserve supplies of maple syrup so that they can always be able to supply the maple syrup market in case they have bad harvests one season.

The strategic maple syrup reserve signals that there is going to be less scarcity in the market for this product as they will always make sure that there is enough of this product being supplied. The producer to ration the maple syrup more, because if they supply too much of the maple syrup their reserve will start to decrease as they will not be making sure that some of it is directed towards the reserve. If the demand for the maple syrup would be very high they would allocate more of the maple syrup in their reserve stocks to the market however if they were to have a lowered demand they would allocate less of the maple syrup and keep it in their reserves.

Throughout the first six months of the year Lego posted an increase in profit of 36%, revenue increase of 24%, however the demands for the Lego products along with all of the toy market has started to fall. This has been the most negative toy market in the U.S. for now. The reason for why the toy market has started to record such negative results are various factors. Amongst those factors were the approaching presidential elections meaning that taxes will go up for all the people making them want to save up more. Moreover the rising debt and the huge economic uncertainty going throughout the country has also started to deeply affect the toy market, making people have to spend less which ultimately leads the consumer to buy or spend less money on their products leading to worse economic results and making the toy market decrease.