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These goods are sold to local consumers via car dealers and a whole chain of traders and retailers.
The low price of oil is good news for the United States economy, because it implies higher real incomes for American consumers.
Governments in those West African countries that are the principal producers and consumers of illegal drugs should fund prevention, treatment, and harm-reduction initiatives, rather than only investing in interdiction and law enforcement.
At the same time, consumers need better tools to assess the quality of the information and opinions they receive.
Schools and universities will have to do more to educate students to be better consumers of information.
Perhaps the program’s most innovative feature was its focus on teaching consumers how to detect emotional manipulation, and how to disengage from such information.
Clearly, more work must be done to boost healthy skepticism among news consumers and increase demand for factual information.
As disinformation amplifies threats to democracy, and the debate about how to defuse fake news intensifies, consumers can take comfort in knowing that with a little practice, it is possible to discern fact from well-concealed fiction.
While it may require charging $100 per ticket to recover the costs of a $1 million theater play, some filmmakers can make money on a $200 million film by selling $10 tickets to consumers who are unwilling to wait a few weeks until their cable TV provider offers it.
The stimulus package is being offset by consumption-tax hikes aimed at reducing Japan’s massive debt burden – a process that will lead many Japanese consumers to adjust their spending downward.
Studies on exchange rate pass-through suggest that US consumers would only see a small fraction of the cost change.
The US and Europe should take the lead in expanding the IEA’s membership to include China, India, Russia, and other non-OECD countries, and in elevating it, along with an expanded Energy Charter Treaty, as a forum for energy security through negotiation among suppliers, consumers, and transit countries.
Shifting to a low-carbon energy system will therefore require considerable planning, long lead times, dedicated financing, and coordinated action across many parts of the economy, including energy producers, distributors, and residential, commercial, and industrial consumers.
US consumers are shopped-out, savings-less, and debt-burdened.
Individual consumers are also important, because their behavior shapes energy demand.
Not only will consumers face higher costs for autos; the disruption of existing efficient supply chains may even leave the US auto industry as a whole worse off, as it undermines the international competitiveness of North American output.
When implemented, it will be the first carbon-emissions cap on a global industry that does not noticeably increase costs for consumers.
Although there are more than 570 million farmers and seven billion consumers worldwide, just a handful of companies control the global industrial-agriculture value chain – from field to shop counter.
To consumers in industrialized countries, uninterrupted power supply is a given.
Despite the ubiquitous efforts of Fox News, President Barack Obama dominates, enthralls, and enthuses the audience of American voters – consumers, workers, investors, one and all.
But a falling dollar would make it cheaper for Chinese consumers and companies to buy American goods.
And students, seen as mere consumers of a service, are invited to exercise choice regarding teachers, curricula, and location.
But in today’s world, students and researchers choose a university much as consumers shop in the international marketplace.
Wouldn’t an Italian company facing grid failure prefer to shut down French rather than Italian consumers?
Firms and consumers reacted to this year’s shocks by “temporarily” slowing consumption, capital spending, and job creation.
(The company denied that any contaminated milk had reached consumers.)
Given the pervasiveness of Chinese-made goods, China’s safety record concerns consumers worldwide.
But Chinese officials’ piecemeal efforts to restore confidence in the country’s exports – for example, establishing limits for trace amounts of melamine in dairy products and tightening quality-control regulations for the dairy industry – are unlikely to reassure foreign consumers or importers.
End consumers, particularly the poor and vulnerable, would also suffer.
This reflects the aftermath of wrenching balance-sheet recessions, in which aggregate demand, artificially propped up by asset-price bubbles, collapsed when the bubbles burst, leading to chronic impairment of overleveraged, asset-dependent consumers (America) and businesses (Japan).
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