Access to price information shifts the balance of power to the buyers: they can buy as little or as much as they need, treating the order form as if it were a spreadsheet, to see the effect of volume discounts or of adding or removing features.

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The absolute volume of loans many banks are adding in a year now is often bigger than the entire bank was a decade ago.

ECONOMIST: Cross your fingers

The tax code is their ongoing masterpiece, a volume to which they can never stop adding new pages.

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Hurt by sharp slides in volume in 2008 and 2009, trucking companies have been conservative about adding drivers and capacity.

FORBES: Trucking industry sales revving

The loan volume had doubled this year, bringing in a flood of dollars into Brazil and adding to currency strength.

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