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After all, it conducts a comprehensive triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which provides a detailed assessment of the role that wealth and balance sheets play in shaping the behavior of a broad cross-section of American consumers.
Dollar devaluation will only secondarily affect Americans who consume imported goods or who work in businesses that distribute imports to consumers.
Improving the quality of life also requires boosting the quality of products that Chinese consumers can buy.
The new money would bypass the financial and corporate sectors and go straight to the thirstiest horses: middle- and lower-income consumers.
Cocaine used to be America’s problem, to the point that the United States started a major campaign against sellers and consumers of crack cocaine in the inner cities, drug traffickers, and suppliers in the Andes.
Of course, holding the sun in a bottle is no small challenge, especially when one considers that the systems must be engineered so that they can create electricity for a price consumers are willing to pay.
Immense trade flows, the rise of billions of new consumers in the emerging world, and technology breakthroughs are rapidly transforming the global economy.
What, for example, should consumers – and family members who may have inherited similar predispositions – if they test positive for genes linked to incurable conditions?
As Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes, “Just as the traditional business model of newspapers is to get revenue not from readers but from advertisers, personal genomics companies see the potential profit not from the consumers themselves but from the compiled databases – likely in the form of selling access to them.”
In short order, the financial woes of banks and consumers dragged the economy into the Great Recession.
The banks pushed unsuspecting consumers into risky mortgages, fueling the housing bubble in the first place, and then bet on the bubble themselves, knowing that should things turn sour, the government would bail them out.
The banks believed what consumers believed as well – that housing was a good bet.
Anti-smoking lobbies consider the affair – which helps powerful tobacco lobbies – a slap in the face of European consumers.
In other words, US consumers of steel would effectively subsidize foreign steel producers.
Consequently Brussels is no government to be, but a regulatory authority – and this often to the benefit of European consumers.
Making matters worse, the lack of adequate infrastructure for storing and transporting food to consumers contributes to massive losses.
In agriculture, it protects the world’s rich farmers by stifling opportunity for the poor, at a cost of some $280 billion a year to taxpayers and consumers.
They also understand, in a more self-interested vein, that if foreign consumers believe that using American social media and search engines exposes them to the scrutiny of US intelligence agencies, those consumers will turn to other providers.
Ultimately, demand for imports would fall, as would the benefits for consumers and new tax revenues for the government.
Consumers temporarily increased their spending in response to the increase in the stock market at the end of 2010, but that spending has recently been much more sluggish.
Indeed, the more frequent the bouts of financial volatility in the months to come, the greater the risk that it will lead consumers to become more cautious about spending, and prompt companies to postpone even more of their investment in new plant and equipment.
This comes largely at the expense of small farmers and consumers, particularly the poor.
Developing country producers, who in an earlier era accounted for a relatively small fraction of global demand, became major consumers.
On the downside, confidence among consumers and investors alike has taken a hit, mainly owing to fears about radiation leakages and power shortages.
After all, consumers expect power always to be available.
The problem is even worse in Japan, where consumers brought forward expenditures in anticipation of the sales-tax hike.
Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.
Those true believers argue that America’s consumers can long pursue their spendthrift ways because their country’s economy is better than everyone else’s.
Firms are likely to pass the increase in energy costs on to consumers by raising their prices.
It stems from a pattern of postponed or partial structural reforms, of privatizations that benefit elites but hurt consumers.
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