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Similarly, just-in-time supply chains – which cut costs by reducing the amount of goods and materials held in stock – have proved vulnerable to natural disasters (like floods) or other disruptions (like worker strikes).
This domestic shortage means that Gazprom is unable to increase supply to Europe, at least in the short term, unless it can buy gas at below-market rates from its Eastern European and Central Asian neighbors and in turn sell it to its European customers at market prices.
Europe's poor showing on the supply side is not a lack of performance, indeed, it is a political choice.
To consumers in industrialized countries, uninterrupted power supply is a given.
Coal plants currently provide more than half of America’s electricity supply.
Two other developments promise to prevent increased European dependence on Russia: massive expansion of liquefied gas imports into the EU and – linked to this and to deregulation of the European gas market – the transition from long-term supply agreements and the oil-price peg to market-dependent spot prices.
The main goal is to put pressure on Ukraine, as well as on Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, which want to supply Europe with gas independently of Russia.
One modern politician, in particular, has been effective in placing nervousness about energy supply at the center of a new political vision.
Then supply eventually outpaces demand, and prices suddenly crash to Earth.
Food and medicine are in short supply as warlords struggle for the remnants of Libya’s national wealth.
But, while policymakers have helped drive down the price of emissions permits in the ETS by mandating and subsidizing renewable energy, the supply of permits has not been reduced.
Normally, any central bank would welcome a positive supply shock.
Then came Japan’s terrible earthquake, which severely damaged both its economy and global supply chains.
So the “natural” rate of interest – the rate at which the demand for investment equals the supply of savings – has fallen, and arguably has become negative.
Rather than adopting the Western model of motivating every link in the supply chain to adhere to specified quality and safety standards, the government continues to rely on top-down policies.
In fact, perverse incentives throughout the supply chain facilitate the widespread, systematic contamination of food and drugs.
But this is precisely the so-called "supply side" argument that the President's father once famously mocked as "voodoo" economics when Ronald Reagan expounded it.
The pioneers of biofuels would probably be surprised by how little they contribute to the total world fuel supply today.
Underwriting the PoorBRUSSELS/NEW YORK – Over the last five years, a sharp rise in food prices has highlighted the global food system’s vulnerability to supply shocks – and reminded the world how tenuous is the food security of millions of people.
As bosses and entrepreneurial workers took a chance, supply would create its own demand.
This argument inspired proposals – most famously by John Maynard Keynes in 1942 – to create “buffer stocks” for the main commodities, which would take supply off the market when prices fell, and add to supply when prices rose.
It is difficult to see how the fair-trade movement can contribute much to solving this problem, because the only serious policy for stabilizing producers’ incomes is to control supply.
These risks include the negative supply shock that could come from a trade war; higher oil prices, owing to politically motivated supply constraints; and inflationary domestic policies in the US.
His draconian approach to immigration will diminish the supply of labor needed to support an aging society.
On the supply side, there is a similar difference between short-term and longer-run effects.
In the short term, supply may be able to respond to the extent that there is reserve capacity (there isn’t much now).
All of this takes time, but, as it occurs, it mitigates the negative impact: the demand and supply curves shift in response to higher prices (or to anticipation of higher prices).
Surface water resources, such as desalinated seawater or recycled wastewater, will not close the global gap – predicted to reach 40% by 2030 – between water supply and demand.
A stable supply of affordable electricity is a prerequisite for economic development.
Such a system can supply low-voltage DC electric power at five volts for mobile phones, and 12V for LED lighting, pumps for outdoor use, and electrical appliances such as computers and televisions.
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