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Dumping – selling products at prices that are lower than the cost of production – clearly helps American consumers, even though it hurts American firms.
Meanwhile, Saudi officials have accused the US of selling out its allies for little security in return.
Presenting a drop this way is misleading, and might encourage some panic selling.
Instead of selling products, businesses would retain ownership, selling the use of the goods they make as a service.
Selling a product’s benefits instead of the product itself would create a powerful incentive for producers to design for longevity, repeated reuse, and eventual recycling, which would enable them to optimize their use of resources.
Learning from Martin Luther About Technological DisruptionGENEVA – Five hundred years ago this week, a little-known priest and university lecturer in theology did something unremarkable for his time: he nailed a petition to a door, demanding an academic debate on the Catholic Church’s practice of selling “indulgences” – promises that the buyer or a relative would spend less time in purgatory after they died.
In tandem with this grim turn of events, numerous emerging-market central banks reversed course and began selling US Treasuries.
And what is true for countries is also true for states, cities, and towns, provided we redefine what we mean by selling to “outsiders.”
Every geographic area must buy products it does not make and pay for them by selling to outsiders some of the output that it does make.
Women comprise half of the agriculture sector’s workforce, growing, selling, buying, and preparing food for their families.
The scandal at Enron, in its final days, was that management prevented employees from selling their Enron shares while executives unloaded their own shares.
But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for “Europe” no longer works.
Conventional monetary policy operates by altering short-term interest rates, which includes the central bank buying and selling short-term government debt.
No intervention in the foreign-exchange market – buying and selling foreign currency – is involved.
Similarly, the quantitative easing (QE) that has defined many major central banks’ monetary policy in recent years does not involve buying or selling foreign assets.
But which ones – the opportunist speculators, who sell when everyone else is selling, or the contrarian speculators, who do the opposite and stabilize volatile markets?
He and other trade economists had played a big part in selling the agreement to the American public.
But many others have embraced far-right populists, who pledge to fight for “the people” (their supporters) against the “liberal establishment” (their opponents), whom they accuse of selling out the national interest to the EU, immigrants, and foreigners in general.
Access to market information, for example, can ensure that farmers selling their surplus crops are not cheated by unscrupulous traders, and that fishermen can land their catch at the port offering the best price.
In Chile, the report met with irate denials from the brokers and fund managers who make their living selling Chilean stocks to investors.
As we know from decades of Japanese and Swiss experience, selling a low-interest-rate currency simply to chase higher US yields is often a costly mistake.
Now, as then, the real conflict in Catalonia is between those who make their living selling goods and those who make their living selling illusions.
North Korea’s leaders have a history of aggressiveness, a demonstrated contempt for their people, and a record of selling just about anything (from drugs and counterfeit dollars to missile parts) to earn hard currency.
Moreover, America has been exporting its problems abroad, not just by selling toxic mortgages and bad financial practices, but through the ever-weakening dollar, in part a result of flawed macro- and micro-policies.
Finally, Western companies should be willing to supply inputs to Chinese businesses selling innovative products.
But the American aviation giant Boeing challenged the sale, alleging that, enabled by subsidies at home, Bombardier was selling the jets at below-market rates, giving the company an unfair advantage.
They should also welcome the establishment of electronic platforms for selling and trading corporate bonds, to create more transparency and efficiency in the marketplace.
In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.
Another vendor, Michel, became a broker himself; after selling one of his kidneys to pay for his father’s medicines, the surgeon forced him to deliver more organs.
Some 37% of Russia’s federal budget in the first quarter of 2016 was spent on the country’s military and security forces – and the vast majority of that spending was financed by selling oil and gas to Europeans.
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