Economics in the News

Applying Economics to the news for VCE and IB students

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Federal Budget 2017

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Here is a link to The Guardian coverage Here
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Applying demand and supply

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Below are links to two articles that can be used for applying demand and supply analysis. Might be useful for IA's or Year 11 VCE asses...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Incentives to reduce pollution

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The UK is considering a scheme to help remove diesel cars from the roads. This is after years of encouraging diesel fuelled cars by taxing i...
Monday, 27 March 2017

Manipulating supply to raise prices

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OPEC is a group of countries that produce oil and in the 1970's formed a cartel to try and raise the revenue they received from oil pro...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

A trade off for monetary policy

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Since the global financial crisis interest rates in the UK (and the US, Europe and Japan) have been at record lows. The aim was to boost Ag...
Thursday, 16 March 2017

Record high underemployment in Australia

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The latest unemployment figures for Australia show a number of worrying indicators. A rise in unemployment overall (to 5.9% of the work...
Wednesday, 15 March 2017

The Fed tries to keep 'ahead of the game'

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Eddie George, the former Governor of the Bank of England, described the role of Monetary Policy as 'keeping ahead of the game'. By ...
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