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The sales made sense at the time for most of the participating countries: The real backing for their debt was the tax reach of their governments, their high levels of institutional development, and their relative political stability.
For many economies, exports to America would slow, and growth would depend either on finding new markets (say, increased sales in Europe and Japan if those economies picked up), or on being able to increase domestic consumption and investment within those economies.
Sales of lesser-evil and functional foods have done well in recent years, bringing in about $85 billion in US sales in 2004.
Likewise, half the fat in most power and energy bars – which bring in $2 billion in annual sales – is saturated and some is trans.
It will thus reduce state expenditure on enforcing a widely violated law; remove marijuana growing and selling from the black market; enable any adult who wishes to use marijuana to do so; and introduce a tax on legal marijuana sales that will fill state coffers with revenue that formerly went to illegal growers (so long as there is no large-scale tax evasion).
The Netherlands, which is popularly believed to have legalized cannabis use along these lines, has in fact tolerated only small-scale retail sales of marijuana in a limited number of coffee shops in its larger cities.
Marijuana cultivation remains illegal and coffee shop sales are regulated – more strictly in recent years in response to complaints from neighboring countries about “drug tourism.”
Indeed, the scale of any increase in marijuana use will critically depend on how tightly regulated marijuana sales are – how many licensed growers there are, the number of sales outlets, their locations and trading hours, eligibility requirements for use, content of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient), and how much promotion and advertising is allowed.
If marijuana were allowed to be marketed much like alcohol is now, we could expect more problem users than if it were regulated more like pharmaceutical drugs (say, by requiring users to be licensed; restricting the number of sales locations, hours of sale, and licensed growers; and imposing high rates of taxation on higher-THC marijuana).
To those who argue that legalizing organ sales would help the poor, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, founder of Organ Watch, pointedly replies: “Perhaps we should look for better ways of helping the destitute than dismantling them.”
Shamalov managed medical-equipment sales in Russia for Siemens AG until 2008, when the United States Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission fined Siemens $1.34 billion for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Likewise, the multinational consumer goods company Procter and Gamble reported $52 billion in sales of “sustainable innovation products” from 2007 to 2012.
That is roughly 11% of the company’s total sales over that period.
But ending ivory sales alone will not reverse declines in elephant populations.
This is not surprising, given the slowdown in consumption growth (car sales, for example, are suffering a prolonged decline).
Unlike the Clinton administration, which saw engagement with North Korea as a goal in itself, the Bush administration is focused on preventing North Korean missiles sales to "rogue" regimes like Iran, ensuring verified compliance with international obligation on nuclear safeguards, and reducing conventional military forces along the border with South Korea.
Because divestment by multinational companies often resulted in fire sales of industrial facilities to regime allies, sanctions may have done more to empower and enrich reactionary elements than to catalyze social change.
Indeed, recent data show falling real personal incomes, declining employment gains, and lower retail sales.
India’s complex system of national and state sales taxes distorts domestic trade.
For example, many automobile manufacturers ignored the shift toward electric and hybrid vehicles – though sales were increasing at a rate of more than 50% annually – until their sales of conventional cars plummeted in key markets.
Limited progress has already been made on this front: investment as a percentage of GDP has fallen slightly to 46% in 2014, while growth in retail sales and consumption have outpaced GDP growth.
Shopping sprees by the rich and famous became synonymous with popular approval for the corruption, legal impunity, and frivolity that surrounded Menem's cronies and his sales of state assets.
Approximately two million Americans are now serving either prison or jail time, over one million of them for non-violent offenses (a preponderance of these either for drug use or low-level drug sales).
In addition to real GDP, employment, income, and sales are considered, as are the depth, duration, and diffusion of the downturn throughout the overall economy.
Sales of electric cars have increased dramatically in recent years; some 750,000 were registered in 2016 – nearly half in China.
Several changes are needed to ensure that growth in EV usage and sales continues.
Because equity-backed debt has been issued to China’s highly leveraged corporate sector, the decline in stock prices has triggered collateral calls and forced asset sales, putting further downward pressure on equity values.
Meanwhile a slump in the real-estate market deprived local governments of their main revenue source: land sales.
Arms sales, worth close to $8 billion, were again competing globally with Great Britain and the US, going to nearly 80 countries, including Venezuela, China, India, Algeria, Iran, Malaysia, and Serbia.
The bulk of numerous Fortune 500 companies’ annual sales come from China nowadays – and they already feel increasingly unwelcome.
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