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Newly rich consumers in rural areas increasingly put their savings into gold, a familiar store of value, while wealthy urban consumers, worried about inflation, also turned to buying gold.
But the economy, so far, has proved resilient, though as we head into this week’s snap general election, there are signs that higher inflation is taking its toll on consumers and some businesses.
All the while, British consumers have done what they do best: spend their money in stores and online.
Crowd-sourcing systems that allow consumers to demand and verify supply information could be very effective in creating a new market for such information.
Rather than subsidizing the price in the domestic oil market (and thus giving domestic manufacturers and consumers an incentive to use too much oil), it would make far better sense to let the domestic price rise to the international price and distribute the windfall profits from foreign oil assets to the population.
The Asian economies are home to 3.5 billion consumers, but their share in global consumption remains small – much smaller than their share in global GDP.
Furthermore, while patients are the consumers, the actual buyers are often governments.
It is comparable to approaches in sectors such as energy, water, or fisheries, where regulatory tools are used to ensure that shared resources and infrastructure are managed and replenished in the interests of both consumers and the producers whose businesses rely on them.
Pushing China into a corner could force it to undertake more intractable, WTO-compliant ways to keep a lid on exports – for example, by vertically integrating Chinese producers and consumers, or by establishing long-term supply contracts.
But, as many pointed out to me, this is partly the result of deliberate government measures to deflate it (also comforting is the fact that consumers are in general not overleveraged).
Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
The competitiveness of their industries, and consumers’ household budgets, suffer accordingly.
Even as fast-food chains have become a lightning rod for criticism on the topic of obesity, they continue to attract consumers within America’s tight-knit minority communities, particularly among their young people, who are less likely to reach their full potential if they are burdened by health problems associated with obesity.
And, as US marketing campaigns focus on first-generation consumers – those raised on Big Macs abroad, without knowledge of the associated health risks – some members of minority groups now spend a substantial portion of their disposable income at fast-food restaurants.
If a half-century of experience in the US is an accurate guide, the waistlines of Asian consumers – in Asia and America – are poised to expand in step with the fast-food industry’s increasingly ethnic-focused marketing, with serious potential health consequences.
Big data and advanced analytics can also reduce costs and enhance efficiency in health care and government, and can create value for consumers through greater product variety and quality, as well as enhanced convenience – benefits that are not captured in GDP statistics.
For one thing, consumers are starting to realize the extent to which digital services profit from their personal information.
Thus, we may be approaching an inflection point where consumers start demanding payment for their data.
Consumers around the world reject clothing stitched by child labor, which is commendable.
When the economic recovery begins to accelerate, commercial banks will want to use the large volume of reserves that the Fed has created to make loans to businesses and consumers.
This policy has long been a burden, both on EU consumers, because it has kept food prices high, and on EU taxpayers, because the subsidy to farmers' incomes costs the Union some e(Euro) 41bn every year (about $40bn), or around half of the total EU budget.
WASHINGTON, DC – Information technology is not just transforming markets; it is also making them ubiquitous, particularly for household consumers.
And if consumers spend smaller shares of their disposable income on each purchase they make, they will have room to consume more, thus boosting overall economic activity.
Nowadays, online retailers use consumers’ Internet activities and other personal data to deliver “targeted pricing.”
This suggests that markets could potentially become extremely fragmented, such that consumers’ choices will be strictly limited to the offerings that have been selected according to their data profiles.
For consumers, the slice of the economic pie made available by their disposable incomes will shrink in real terms, leading to a fall in aggregate demand.
After all, a system that benefits consumers benefits everyone.
And it was evident in the first-quarter data that Chinese consumers are becoming an increasingly important driver of economic growth.
But this position looks increasingly doubtful when the banks are sitting on piles of cash while creditworthy consumers and businesses are reluctant to borrow.
Specifically, Insidr brings together consumers who have practical questions about how to deal with a specific company and (mostly) former employees of that company.
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