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In contrast to the United States, however, the boost in consumer demand has not become an engine of growth.
Services fostering financial-inclusion must deliver a high volume of low-value output, which means they often have to rely on partnerships to meet certain consumer demands.
As Japan equaled and perhaps surpassed the North Atlantic in terms of capital intensity, industrial knowhow, and standard of living, the global economy’s most highly rewarded activities – research and development in high-tech industries, high-end consumer fashion, high finance, and corporate control – would increasingly migrate to Tokyo Bay.
Consumer surplus – which is growing fast, as Internet-based services like Google search and Facebook generate substantial utility to consumers, at a market price of close to zero – is ignored.
Indeed, a recent review of research on productivity by the Brookings Institution and the Chumir Foundation confirmed that gains from new technologies are underestimated, owing to measurement issues relating to both product quality and consumer surplus.
And, in the event of a Trump presidency, financial policy would likely be crafted in large part by the House Financial Services Committee, whose chairman’s clearly stated priorities are to reduce consumer protection and remove any effective constraints on big banks’ activities.
Both legislation and the forces of competition and consumer demand are driving companies to disclose more about their products and to respond to consumer queries.
British consumer confidence is down, with spending in the second quarter of this year falling to its lowest level in four years.
Globally, this market stood at nearly $20 billion; it seemed inconceivable that the rise of the Chinese consumer would not add to this number.
Tencent, now one of the largest Internet companies in the world, intentionally under-monetized its early social network, QQ, for many years in order to focus on consumer experience.
As the composition of China’s economy continues to shift from investment to consumption, demand for commodity-intensive consumer durables – cars, mobile phones, indoor plumbing, computers, and televisions – will rise.
One of my favorite (sad) stories concerns consumer credit ratings in Russia.
The absence of antitrust laws, combined with weak consumer protection, means that in many countries, only two or three major companies control markets for items like salt, sugar, flour, milk, oil, and tea .
Amazingly, the Internet has the same level of credibility with the patient as television does with the consumer: "I read it on the Web, so it must be true."
First, they are focused on consumer prices, which is the wrong target.
Consumer prices are falling for a simple reason: energy and other raw material prices have declined by more than half in the last two years.
The decline is therefore temporary, and central banks should look past it, much as they looked past the increase in consumer prices when oil prices were surging.
For example, the networking of telecommunications, roads, rail, air, and maritime transport enabled China to become a global hub for the production of consumer durables, and improve their distribution.
This would drive up the value of those assets, increasing household wealth and therefore consumer spending.
Because Europe lacks the widespread share ownership that exists in the United States, quantitative easing cannot be used to stimulate consumer spending by raising household wealth.
The patient is the American consumer – the world’s biggest by far, but now in the throes of the worst funk since the Great Depression.
Recent data on consumer spending in the United States have been terrible.
That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.
In other words, Americans have much farther to go on the road to balance-sheet repair – which hardly suggests a temporary, or cyclical, shortfall in consumer demand.
Souq led a revolution in e-commerce in the region that has powered cross-border trade and improved consumer choice.
This would place the financial burden squarely on the shoulders of future taxpayers, which would not enhance consumer confidence.
It is the average annualized growth of US consumer spending over the past 14 quarters – calculated in inflation-adjusted terms from the first quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2011.
There are two distinct phases to this period of unprecedented US consumer weakness.
From the first quarter of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2% annual rate.
That is the most anemic consumer recovery on record – fully 1.5 percentage points slower than the 12-year pre-crisis trend of 3.6% that prevailed between 1996 and 2007.
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