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BDS activists have picketed Jewish-owned businesses – from single shops in Glasgow to the retail giant Marks & Spencer – while making many university campuses increasingly uncomfortable for Jewish students.
In most advanced economies, the tradable sector has generated very limited job growth – a problem that, until 2008, domestic demand “solved” by employing lots of people in the non-tradable sector (government, health care, construction, and retail).
In the past three years, employment in construction has shrunk, but so has employment in manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information distribution and communications, professional and business services, educational services, leisure and hospitality, and in the public sector.
But the draft regulation falls far short of the recommendations made by a high-level expert group in 2012, which included an impermeable wall between banks’ speculative-trading business and their retail and commercial banking activities.
If a company the size of US retailer Walmart decides that it will not allow wasteful packaging, its purchasing power will lead to changes in packaging for the entire retail sector.
These realities were masked by the craziness that characterized America’s pre-2008 “Golden Age” of leverage, credit, and debt entitlement, which fueled a gigantic but unsustainable boom in construction, housing, leisure, and retail.
Historically, poaching has also been immune to fluctuations in the retail price of rhino horns.
Retail banking, however, remains segmented by national borders, so that households and smaller producers have not been much affected.
In the retail sector, which employs a huge number of Japan’s unskilled workers – the so-called “mom and pop” shops – Japanese productivity is now 25% lower than in Western Europe.
Second, once freed of their non-performing loans, banks would need to undertake precautionary recapitalizations, including the bail-in of subordinated bondholders and the immediate compensation of retail investors.
Neither the economy in general, nor the retail sector in particular, should be adversely affected.
Besides, in contrast to China, where economic reforms were quicker and more complete, India still has a way to go: privatization, labor-market reforms, and opening up the retail sector to larger, more efficient operators are all pending – and will give a further boost to India’s growth rate once they are implemented.
Last year, PlantLab began the construction – set to be completed next month – of a $22-million, 200,000-square-foot (18,600 square meters) headquarters, including multiple PPUs and research units, inside the shell of a retail food-distribution warehouse 60 miles south of Amsterdam.
In addition to this difference in the relative magnitude of imports, the benign price effect of low-cost import competition is much larger in Germany’s competitive retail landscape than in the more traditional, and uncompetitive, retail systems of Italy or Greece.
Such activities now account for 51% of US wages, and are most prevalent in sectors that employ large numbers of workers, including hotel and food services, manufacturing, and retail trade.
Another important part is disintermediation – the elimination of intermediaries in banking, online retail, and a host of government services, to name just a few affected areas.
The Ghost in the Recovery MachineNEW HAVEN – The International Monetary Fund’s October World Economic Outlook proclaimed that, “Strong public policies have fostered a rebound of industrial production, world trade, and retail sales.”
Banking and retail are flourishing.
The retail price is often more than twice the wholesale price paid by the importer.
But retail shop clerks and car dealers cannot be easily transformed into the specialized and highly skilled workers needed in modern manufacturing.
As recent weakness in employment and retail sales suggests, that may already be happening.
In today’s developing countries, the bulk of excess labor is absorbed in non-tradable services operating at very low levels of productivity, in activities such as retail trade and housework.
Regulations and exchange controls prevent the retail sector from benefiting from new wealth creation.
Indeed, despite perpetual talk of an overheating economy, China’s exports and retail sales are soaring, and its foreign-exchange reserves now approach $2.5 trillion, even as America’s fiscal and trade deficits remain alarming.
Fashion has been transformed by the recent emergence of retail chains that hire good designers to make throwaway clothing and accessories that are right on trend.
There is enormous scope for America’s global services companies to expand in China, especially in transactions-intensive distribution sectors – wholesale and retail trade, domestic transportation, and supply-chain logistics – as well as in the processing segments of finance, health care, and data warehousing.
The gains have been particularly strong in the distribution sectors – wholesale and retail trade – as well as in finance and real estate.
We should demand that every major oil company reveal to the public what proportion of its retail products comes from Saudi Arabia.
Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, and housing in the United States remain very weak;Europe’s first quarter GDP growth data is dismal;Japan’s economy is still comatose; and even China – which is recovering – has very weak exports.
In the United States, policymakers chose to include the Volcker rule (named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker) in the Dodd-Frank Act, thereby restricting proprietary trading by commercial banks rather than reviving some form of the Glass-Steagall Act’s division of investment and retail banks.
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