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China has been focused on these objectives for five years – seeking to transform a powerful yet unbalanced growth model based largely on exports and investment into one driven increasingly by its consumers.
It would also create a powerful incentive for companies to expand into the service economy, providing more jobs and more choices for Chinese consumers.
These labels are undoubtedly useful to consumers, but it is unlikely that many manufacturers, if given the choice, would have introduced them on their own.
For today we need laws that will require purveyors of financial products to provide the essential information that consumers need.
The structure of the label should be developed by a committee of academics, regulators, and industry executives with the objective of promoting informed comparison among consumers of investment products.
But neither are all consumers of food able to interpret the quantities of nutrients that are shown on nutritional labels.
Because the world burns 34 billion barrels of oil every year, a $10 fall in the price of oil shifts $340 billion from oil producers to consumers.
Thus, the $60 price decline since last August will redistribute more than $2 trillion annually to oil consumers, providing a bigger income boost than the combined US and Chinese fiscal stimulus in 2009.
Because oil consumers generally spend extra income fairly quickly, while governments (which collect the bulk of global oil revenues) usually maintain public spending by borrowing or running down reserves, the net effect of lower oil prices has always been positive for global growth.
Third, in countries running current-account deficits, consumers need to cut spending and save much more for many years.
Shopped out, savings-less, and debt-burdened consumers have been hit by a wealth shock (falling home prices and stock markets), rising debt-service ratios, and falling incomes and employment.
But this debate misses a crucial point: the purpose of antitrust law is to protect consumers, not competitors.
If Google’s search practices really do harm consumers, Almunia risks agreeing to a settlement that does not solve the problem.
If consumers are not suffering, Google’s proposed remedies are unnecessary.
Such an outcome would be bad for competition – and for consumers.
Last Taxi to EuropeROME – The contrast between Europe’s resistance to Uber and America’s warmer reception for the ride-sharing service highlights once again how European regulatory structures, in principle designed to protect consumers, end up protecting entrenched suppliers and stifling innovation.
And this is true in many other European countries and industries, where the structure of regulations protects suppliers more than consumers, hampering innovation.
This can be achieved by adopting an outcome-based regulation aimed at the protection of consumers, not producers.
It not only denies farmers improved seeds, but also denies consumers of organic goods access to nutritionally improved foods, such as oils with enhanced levels of omega-3 fatty acids.
For example, a longstanding debate in macroeconomics has focused on how prices respond to news about the economy, and whether companies pass through to consumers changes in import prices that result from exchange-rate movements.
First, consumers, faced with tighter credit and falling house values, will need to cut spending, slowing the US economy and affecting all countries via world trade.
With the rise of China and India, one-third of the world’s population suddenly became workers and consumers in the global economy.
After all, the Chinese economy can no longer rely on external demand and exports to sustain its remarkable growth, and Chinese consumers, who are still poor on average, deserve a break and should be encouraged to spend rather than save.
This way the increased demand for its industrial output would come from domestic rather than foreign consumers.
With fear gripping consumers, companies, and countries worldwide, talk has turned from a moderate advanced-country recession to a major world depression.
As technology continues to progress, with robotization becoming more accessible, companies that once relied on cheap labor and manufacturing exports increasingly need to produce goods and services closer to domestic consumers in open and globally competitive markets.
Kicillof’s second point was that Argentina’s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism.
Their problem – in a sense, a luxury problem – is to ensure that their consumers spend the windfall from lower import prices.
And it will not reassure consumers or investors.
When markets are two-sided, many of the standard assumptions of antitrust analysis no longer hold: market entry can be bad for consumers, exclusive contracts can increase the number of firms in a market, and pricing below cost may not be predatory.
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