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They did, however, sometimes consume Guam flying foxes – a species of fruit bat that fed on cycad seeds and concentrated BMAA in their body fat.
Lacking in saving and wanting to invest, consume, and grow, they have no choice but to borrow surplus saving from others, which gives rise to current-account and trade deficits with the rest of the world.
In the short run, increased efficiency reduces the cost of a good or service, so people consume more of it.
The renminbi, meanwhile, strengthened, reflecting Chinese residents’ increased desire to consume.
The end to Western consumerism is not yet at hand, but high commodity prices are a clear warning that big adjustments will be needed as Asia and other emerging nations begin to consume a larger share of the global pie.
Defense expenditures consume between one-third and one-half of the national budget.
In the last few years, the Chinese government has been implementing the combination of expansionary fiscal policy and loose monetary policy that would ordinarily spur consumers, expecting high future inflation, to consume more.
Economists have sensibly advocated that China raise the interest rates that it pays on bank deposits so that Chinese households earn more and consume more.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the painful spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
Trade imbalances are the result, for instance, of household decisions about how much to save and how much – and what – to consume.
Even Americans can consume only so many new cars.
Households consume one third of the final energy used in the European Union and produce around two-thirds of municipal waste.
Many people are willing to do their bit for the environment, but they do not always have the opportunity to consume in environmentally friendly ways, because sustainable low-carbon choices are more expensive and harder to find.
The root cause of Germany’s sluggish economic performance in recent years is the continuing unwillingness of its households and enterprises to consume and invest.
Furthermore, US-style QE, in particular, tends to have adverse distributional implications, because it channels more money toward the wealthy, who have a lower propensity to spend, without providing much to the poorer people who would use it to consume more.
For low-income households, which are the most likely to consume inexpensive imported goods, this has been a godsend, as it has effectively raised their purchasing power.
The inventions of the future may well consume even less capital (and labor).
Contemporary Russians consume competitive products: Nestle cereals, Mercedes cars, Hollywood movies.
A formula for “just” prices keeps all prices artificially low (setting higher prices buys violators a ticket to prison), causing shortages, rationing, and queues that consume many hours of most Venezuelans’ days.
If Obama fails to fight these fires successfully, they will consume his political capital, but if all he does is fight them, he will inherit Bush’s priorities.
It is plausible that the wealthy consume smaller shares of their income, and recent trends in income and wealth distribution certainly are troubling on many grounds.
The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – consume fewer antibiotics per person than the US.
There is insufficient incentive, even at local levels, for taking the long view, and for restraining our tendency to consume in order to benefit all of humanity.
In reality, a “dash for gas” would consume almost two-thirds of G20 countries’ combined carbon budget by 2050.
Making Do With MoreBERKELEY – In the United States, just three out of ten workers are needed to produce and deliver the goods we consume.
So financing a continued GIPS current-account deficit of about €100 billion a year would consume the entire stock of base money within another six or seven years.
The electricity that people in rich countries consume is, on average, equivalent to the energy of 56 servants helping them.
China is encouraging the use of zero-emission EVs because they are “energy agnostic” – that is, they can consume any kind of fuel that is already in the national grid’s mix, including the growing amount of renewable energy.
Households were assumed to be ready to consume, although, in Spain and elsewhere, many were over-indebted.
This will reduce the world price of these fuels, inducing other countries to consume even more than they otherwise would.
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