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While such a move would have a negligible effect on prices now, it would provide countries with a huge advantage during future oil-price fluctuations, because consumers and retail suppliers would no longer be cut off from price signals.
Whether in Nairobi, Shanghai, Pittsburgh, Lisbon, or Melbourne, consumers find a much wider variety of goods, at cheaper prices, than any one country could produce alone.
This boost to purchasing power is even more pronounced for the poorest tenth of US consumers, who can buy 60% more than they would otherwise be able to afford.
With troubled commercial banks more risk-averse, these struggling consumers could no longer borrow to roll over their debt and finance current consumption, which came to a halt, deepening the recession.
As a result, it is unlikely to affect the operations of the small local banks lending small amounts to impatient low-income consumers.
Costs are rising for consumers.
Over time, this second set of factors will fuel more direct and efficient provision of services to a broader set of consumers, contributing to a reconfiguration of the industry as a whole.
Consumers who are forced to pay higher prices for energy will have less money to spend on other things.
Unless corporations step up to the plate, “American business will suffer from an inadequate workforce, a population of depleted consumers, and large blocs of anti-business voters.”
While there may well be merit to the allegations, as documented in the latest “USTR Report to Congress on China’s WTO Compliance,” punitive action would have serious consequences for US businesses and consumers.
First, imposing tariffs on imports of Chinese goods and services would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on American consumers.
Who Are Tomorrow’s Consumers?
Even though the embargo was aimed at the US and the Netherlands, market forces shifted oil among consumers, and in the long term all consuming countries suffered shortages of supply and the same price shock.
If serious ethical lapses occur, many consumers will no longer use the service, regardless of how promising the business model is.
Consumers believe or expect that someone somewhere is keeping an eye on this, but who exactly would that be?
Competing for the EU’s more discriminating consumers would force Ukrainian producers to improve their competitiveness by raising productivity, quality control, and marketing and logistical capabilities.
In addition to the changes being wrought by automation, the job market is being transformed by digital platforms like Uber that facilitate exchanges between consumers and individual suppliers of services.
Uber and other digital platforms are redefining the interaction among consumers, workers, and employers.
Despite recent good news on this front, the odds remain stacked against consumers.
Companies cannot purchase or contrive a solution to consumers who say, “I’m just not going to buy this.”
If they could reduce the number of national insurers from five to three, they could then increase their market power and squeeze more profits from consumers.
The industry trotted out all the standard arguments to justify such consolidation, claiming that it would actually benefit consumers by making health-insurer operations more efficient.
They ply their targets with plausible-sounding arguments, talking points, and suggestions that campaign or “super-PAC” contributions will find their way to politicians whose policies reward discrete, organized interests, even if they are very bad for America’s amorphous and unorganized consumers.
But all of us who want to put consumers before corporations could have used more manpower and background information from the beginning.
Now that the Justice Department has stepped in, we can only hope that this story will have a happy ending, and that the courts will recognize that these mergers are anticompetitive and immensely harmful to consumers.
China provided cheap goods that enabled income-constrained American consumers to make ends meet, and the US provided the external demand that underpinned Deng Xiaoping’s export-led growth strategy.
Yet there is hope for an abundant, clean energy source that would boost global security by placing production closer to consumers.
There is a well-established method for estimating reserves yet to be found, and whether one examines currently proven reserves or future projections, one fact stands out: conventional gas supplies are distributed unevenly around the world-and in places far from most consumers.
Perhaps more important, building a coalition of workers, consumers, and allied activists to apply pressure at the top could be a model for positive change for workers in globalized industries in India, Bangladesh, China, and elsewhere.
Why should there be any reason for hope, especially given that US environmental policy has been predicated on the unrealistic belief that relatively small subsidies to new energy technologies can substitute for tax-induced price incentives for producers and consumers?
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