Saturday, July 31, 2010

Unit 2: The effect of the recession on inflation

A nice post from econ0omicshelp on the effect of the recession on inflation

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/inflation/inflation-and-the-recession/

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Unit 2: What is GDP?

A neat video from the BBC; not very technical, but i like it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10730689

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Unit 2: Australian interest rates on hold

The BBC reports no change in Australian interest rates, but with pressures to both increase and decrease them

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10519027.stm video

a) What are the pressures to raise Australian interest rates?
b) What are the pressures to lower Australian interest rates?