For the vast majority of Gazans, it means they must spend much of their time trying to secure basic commodities.
One can, with money alone, buy not only basic commodities but also private housing, private schooling, and private health care.
During Mr. Zardari's administration, the Supreme Court has played an activist role, making decisions normally reserved for government, including setting the price of basic commodities.
He discovered that basic commodities were relatively scarce in the country.
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The abandoning of International Monetary Fund and World Bank economic policies which Mr Mugabe flirted with for 10 years, has already seen the re-introduction of price controls of basic commodities.
The power of Wall Street, in effect, to corner markets worldwide in vital basic commodities, has played havoc with the business cycle and has fostered bubbles, allowing them to occur more often and with ever increasing amplitudes.
Some now argue that it's a cause of financial instability as the international super-rich shift their wealth around the world, increasing volatility in the price of gold, equities, government debt or basic commodities such as copper and grain.
The merger, which analysts expect to survive antitrust scrutiny, will give Dow a greater presence in Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe in its basic commodities business, as well as slightly increase, to 62% , revenues from noncyclical products.
We are, of course, seeing the same scenario play out again in food, energy and other basic and vital commodities.
Basic materials, commodities, and precious metals, according to Hummel.
Basic materials and agricultural commodities also plummeted, along with many of the popular stocks.
He has surprised foreign capitalists by maintaining a market structure, allowing Brazil to gain from a commodities and basic materials boom.
Over time, historically, commodities are most impacted by the basic forces of supply and demand.
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The most suspect sectors are technology, capital goods and basic industrials, along with oil and other commodities.
If my basic premise is right, the declining price will force traders to sell their commodities contracts to raise the cash to raise the extra cash needed to satisfy the higher margin requirements.
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