Obama+Orders+Strategy+for+Protecting+Nation's+Supply+Chain+by+Kay

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=TITLE OF EXTRACT:= Obama Orders Strategy for Protecting Nation's Supply Chain http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-26/obama-orders-strategy-for-protecting-nation-s-supply-chain.html

=SOURCE:= Bloomberg Businessweek

=DATE EXTRACT WAS WRITTEN:= January 26th 2012

=DATE CURRENT EVENT WAS WRITTEN:= January 26th 2012

=EXPLANATION OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY RELATED TO THE ARTICLE:= How natural disasters and other disruptions have caused the supply and global economic growth and productivity to decrease.

=VOCABULARY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS:=
 * Global Economic Growth: A positive change
 * Supply: The amount of a product that is available for consumers

=DIAGRAMS:=

=EVALUATION:= From the graph we can see that the natural disasters caused a shift in the PPC curve downwards, which meant that it was producing at a lower level than it was originally producing at. This is caused by natural disasters, which causes disruptions in factory production and other factors of production