Gold, with a relatively fixed supply they argue, becomes worth more in dollar terms.
ETFs differ from traditional stocks, for which there is essentially a fixed supply of shares.
And with no fixed supply of raw material, unlike stocks or bonds, bets could be almost limitless.
Few thought to reject the Hubbard paradigm, even though it relied heavily on neo-Malthusian notions of a world of static technology and a known, fixed supply.
The first worry is about direct competition for things that are in more or less fixed supply: geopolitical supremacy, the world's oil and raw materials, the status and perks that come with being the issuer of a trusted international currency.
He says the engineer in him likes the simplicity of Bitcoin's fixed money supply.
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Moreover, it would not be good for the global economic system to have a totally fixed money supply.
The chief lines of debate will be drawn between Kaoru Yosano, a former economy minister who argues for a swift start to hikes in the consumption tax, and Hidenao Nakagawa, once a close adviser to Mr Koizumi, who says the bureaucracy must be fixed and supply-side measures taken first.
Certain raw materials like grains ( NYSE:JJG ) have a somewhat fixed level of supply and no attempt to increase that supply, such as fertilizer improvements through companies like Monsanto ( NYSE:MON) have been developed to meet that supply.
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But huge investments in hydropower in Bhutan (in return for the guaranteed supply of fixed-price electricity into India's grid) helped both countries.
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These power-supply contracts commonly include fixed or indexed price structures.
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The supply of real estate is fixed in the short term, so increased demand from a few optimistic investors will push prices above their equilibrium level.
If more people have insurance, and the supply of doctors and hospitals remains fixed, the price of health care will go up.
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Brut, for example, borrowed a practice from the fixed-income side by paying traders to supply limit orders--a commitment to buy a stock at a specific price--to draw sellers to the exchange.
The more regulated and localized American economy had all sorts of inefficiencies and trade barriers that created safe harbors for institutions like banks, department stores, insurance companies, fixed-commission stock brokerages, and middlemen in supply chains.
In the short term, the supply of housing is more or less fixed, so house prices are mainly driven by demand factors: namely, personal disposable income, real interest rates and the return offered by alternative investments such as equities.
He says supply chain checks find recent component shortage have been fixed.
After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971 the Federal Reserve allowed the money supply to increase at 12% a year or more.
Gasfin provides infrastructure solutions under long term fixed price contracts which can be structured to include or exclude gas supply.
The state government confesses it can no longer supply potable water free of charge, and has introduced monthly fixed charges - but only residents in affluent neighbourhoods, like Victoria Island, Lekki and Ikoyi, pay.
Even if you hold everything fixed, there will be workers elsewhere in the world who at given the current supply and demand for labor in the U.S., and the resulting market wages, will find it optimal to move here and be hired.
The chief advantage is that this outlaws any national discretion in the conduct of monetary policy: interest rates and the money supply adjust automatically to changes in economic circumstances, with the exchange rate totally fixed.
In many cases, pension funds are buying government bonds because they need fixed income instruments and the near-collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market has eliminated that supply.
This means that economies of scale arise on the supply side of the market, on the savings from a larger production batch with the same fixed resources, on gains from improved bargaining power with suppliers.
Ruiz, speaking at a Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) technology conference yesterday, said that in recent months he has focused on tightening the company's supply chain, boosting its capitalization and reducing break-even levels, in part by lowering fixed costs.
For Tony Volpon, a managing director in charge of emerging markets fixed income in the Americas over at Nomura Securities in New York, there are distinct factors changing the demand and supply of labor in the direction of tighter conditions.
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