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And, with demand high and housing
supply
fixed – at least in the short run – prices go up.
Reforms unleashed the beneficial forces of
supply
and demand, as Poland's experience made dramatically evident, and brought an end to the endemic shortages of the old regime.
After all, the state determines the
supply
of fiat money and is responsible for energy and natural-resource conservation.
Indonesia’s activist approach, whereby it assumes a leadership role both in the region and globally, has been driven simultaneously by
supply
(domestic popular sentiment) and demand (the country’s international partners).
To that end, Africa will need access to the relevant expertise, adequate funding, and well-run laboratories – all of which are currently in short
supply.
Isn’t this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move away from a world where the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank hold the
supply
of international liquidity in thrall?
The good news is that wages are already growing faster than GDP – a trend that is likely to continue, as demographic change restricts the
supply
of new labor.
Moreover, innovative mechanisms to
supply
new assets to investors would be needed – and that requires the creativity found and priced by markets.
Furthermore, its non-fossil energy
supply
more than doubled from 2005 to 2013 while the CO2 intensity of GDP fell by 28%.
Women account for half of the global labor
supply
and about 70% of the world’s consumption demand.
The US government will no longer be able to afford to invest hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to
supply
other people with decent government.
The right support would help traders in poorer countries to compete and integrate into global
supply
chains.
In order to establish a clear, low-risk path to producing their goods at a predictable (and profitable) cost, companies employ teams dedicated to securing the relevant
supply
chains, controlling inventory, managing the production process, and so on – from the point of origin to the point of consumption.
By contrast, the innovation
supply
chain (the process by which companies obtain and/or develop future products and improve on their current products) tends to be characterized by inefficiency, ambiguity, and competition.
And, in many cases, no
supply
chain is in place.
Most pharmaceutical companies, for example, lack effective innovation
supply
chains.
Moreover, the same companies compete directly in the
supply
of innovative technologies.
The result is a broken
supply
chain.
Just as individual innovators must challenge conventional wisdom, companies must replace the established approach to the innovation
supply
chain with one that more closely resembles how they create and maintain a manufacturing
supply
chain.
And, as with effective manufacturing
supply
chains, the supplier and the purchaser must build a reciprocal relationship, in which they do not compete with each other, practically or economically, in the specific activities that they are performing.
An efficient
supply
chain can transform innovation on both the individual and industry levels.
More broadly, Lutz Mez, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University, argues that the country’s shift has “observably decoupled energy
supply
from economic growth,” and that the “evolving Energiewende, rather than the nuclear phase-out” implies “continuing reforms of social, economic, technological, and cultural policy in Germany.”
Indeed, Yellen’s predecessor, Ben Bernanke, recently addressed such possibilities, notably the potential for a permanent increase in the money
supply
(so-called helicopter money).
With per capita GDP of more than $37,000, Japan still ranks among the world’s richest countries, specializing in the highest-value links of global
supply
chains.
And now, like all asset-price surges that are divorced from the fundamentals of
supply
and demand, the gold bubble is deflating.
But, despite very aggressive monetary policy by many central banks – successive rounds of “quantitative easing” have doubled, or even tripled, the money
supply
in most advanced economies – global inflation is actually low and falling further.
Ongoing private and public debt deleveraging has kept global demand growth below that of
supply.
This will be particularly costly and disruptive for manufacturers with complex, just-in-time
supply
chains: cars that are “made in Britain” actually include many components that cross borders repeatedly during the manufacturing process.
In the face of relentless demand-side pressure, driven mainly by high-growth countries like China and India, some predict stratospheric energy prices,
supply
shortages, economic and social hardship, and even resource wars.
Global exposure makes
supply
chains more dynamic and enables companies to absorb more of the innovations, technologies, and ideas that are constantly emerging worldwide.
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