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To take one example, small business owners subscribe to electric service as individual consumers and can even qualify for subsidies of up to 80%.
A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more expensive for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.
For example, they must prevent the manipulation of reviews and other practices that mislead consumers trying to assess the quality of a company’s service.
For starters, thanks to low-cost imports from China, US consumers pay less for a wide range of goods, from shoes to electronics.
In 2005, when the US government was pressing China to allow the renminbi to appreciate, Phillip Swagel, a former member of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, wrote: “If China’s currency is undervalued by 27%, as some have claimed, US consumers have been getting a 27% discount on everything made in China, while the Chinese have been paying 27% too much for Treasury bonds.”
Consumers are pulling back from home and automobile purchases not only because they have suffered a blow to their wealth with declining stock prices and housing values, but also because they don’t know where to turn.
Consumers also suffer.
But their massive market power leaves consumers at their mercy in every sphere, from manufacturing to financial services to digital technologies.
Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the “new economy” is a new face of the old “industrial policy,” allowing bureaucrats to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers’ choice.
Efficient companies are punished for their success by being held to a special standard that expects them to cuddle their competitors, instead of continuing to out-price and outsell them, to the benefit of consumers.
The problem with “predatory pricing” is that the courts are very unlikely to be able to distinguish “unfair” prices from effective competition that is a boon to consumers.
It is the less efficient competitors, and not consumers, that are the most likely to benefit from punishing Intel for lowering its prices.
The Right Time for Climate ActionPARIS – During most of the roughly three decades since climate change became a global concern, governments optimistically assumed that a green transition would happen naturally over time, as rising fossil-fuel prices nudged consumers toward low-carbon alternatives.
In any case, hydrogen fuel cell cars typically incorporate batteries in hybrid configurations, enabling them to cover the 300-mile range demanded by consumers.
Providing consumers with a way to make low-cost telephone calls over the Internet.
As a result, developing countries face a stark choice: take advantage of new technologies to stimulate economic growth and enhance productivity or fall even further behind as businesses and consumers in rich countries increasingly embrace digital advances.
Likewise, consumers in poor countries that regulate ISP prices pay more for Internet access than consumers in countries that don't.
The biggest improvements for consumers, though, come not from privatization, but from competition.
A sound regulatory framework and effective enforcement are frequently necessary for introducing competition, as well as to protect investors and consumers in the presence of a newly-privatized firm that might otherwise be able to use its substantial market power to stifle and prevent competition.
It is irrelevant whether Internet regulations that fail to promote competition and protect consumers are passed by governments afraid of freely flowing information or, as in the case of the jailed entrepreneur, in order to protect established companies.
The result is the same: worse access to new technology, higher prices for consumers, and a chilling effect on innovation and local entrepreneurship.
Although rising global energy prices have given Iran some respite in recent months, the sanctions have made themselves felt more than ever among Iranian consumers.
You would choose to continue to make as much money as possible, while the consumers of your products use the atmosphere as a sewer, with no sewerage charge.
One reason for this perception may be that China collects more taxes from producers, and less from consumers, than most developed economies.
Such fees, paid to local governments, must come from profit, and cannot be passed on to consumers.
The first is to put purchasing power directly into the hands of consumers – for example, by issuing each voter or citizen with smart cards worth $1,000 each.
CAMBRIDGE – The price at the pump for premium gasoline topped $3 per gallon in much of the United States over the past few weeks, which is surprising to consumers but not to analysts of the world’s oil markets.
The country’s irrational energy policy, based on immensely wasteful subsidies to consumers, must be fundamentally altered.
It would comprise 620 million consumers, and have a combined GDP of more than $22 trillion (larger than the EU’s, and more than double that of China).
Of course, regulatory staff had more informal links with the industry than with consumers.
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