But with war, repression and economic collapse, push factors are much stronger in the poor world.
The bizarre belief that adequate housing means home ownership and not rental housing was one of the push factors in the subprime crisis.
Both these factors push up the cost to a new entrant of building a distribution network.
Eventually, the U.S. economy will improve, sparking stronger inflation, the Fed will unwind the massive liquidity in the financial system and these factors will push Treasury yields higher.
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Wold notes that three factors could push 2012 EPS below current expectations: the loss of DVD only subscribers, international operating losses and competition pushing up the cost of customer acquisition.
Yes, those factors would push up tax revenues (at least based on static revenue estimates), but the tax burden also is expected to climb because even modest economic growth slowly but surely pushes more and more people into higher tax brackets.
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And while European woes are still very apparent, instead it is U.S. factors that will push gold higher.
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But several other factors may help push prices the other way, or at least stop them falling much.
There are plenty of motivating factors that would push managers to adopt the idea of a paperless office.
These are the factors that will push CIOs to a more risk-taking position.
Winmill points at the debt ceiling debate as one of the factors helping to push the price of gold higher, recognizing that along with ultra-loose monetary policy, the government is running out of tools to bring down unemployment rates that have crept past 9%.
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Several factors have conspired to push risk assets even higher including extraordinary support by the Bernanke Fed, relative calm in Europe, and diminished political uncertainty in Washington.
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In practice, most factors, like Liquid, push risk back to their customers.
He said there are several factors that could result in a push-pull on values.
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Economists stressed domestic factors alone would be sufficient to push the index lower as unemployment hit 9% in August, its highest level for nine months.
However, Schwab said that because the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis that heralded the recent economic downturn, was one of a slew of factors driving market turmoil, the World Economic Forum was ideally placed to push discussion forward.
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