They also live within their means by buying things in cash rather than financing them.
He could avoid working for traditional US employers and buying things from mainstream US businesses.
Why are we imposing austerity when we know we need people in the shops buying things?
Andy Jehan, from Jersey Post, said the company was benefiting as more people were buying things online.
When I started buying on Craigslist, I had to get past the stigma of buying things used.
'I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
Unless this mindset changes and people start buying things, consumption, which is near 70% of GDP, won't grow.
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Making things, not just buying things -- making things that the rest of the world wants to buy.
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No one knows what to expect or when, so Americans are buying things they know will last a long time.
But in the West at least, we seem to have lost this in favour of buying things new and ready-made.
He also says storage is one impediment to people buying things digitally.
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But what about the time you spend buying things for your children?
Resist buying things that you can make on your MakerBot Replicator 2.
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Spending money on others or giving to charity puts a bigger smile on your face than buying things for yourself, according to Michael Norton, a professor at Harvard Business School.
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These industries were able to grow because they are more dependent on government incentives and subsidy programs than they are on more traditional economic factors like, say, whether people or businesses are actually buying things.
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Souleles and his colleagues also found that in the three months during which the rebates were received, low-income households spent 63% more of the money on nondurable goods than high-income households did, buying things like food, clothing and health-related items.
Do you ever put off buying basic things your family needs because your business needs the money more?
Firms may also keep prices stable because they are providing insurance to customers who dislike volatile prices, especially when buying expensive things.
For too many Western brands, "it's the ugliest race to the bottom because the financial crisis in America and Europe means that people are getting very scared of buying expensive things, " says Sanjiv Pandita, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Monitor Resource Center, which tracks labor conditions across the region.
Politicians have made us believe that buying new things is good - that we shouldn't be miserly and hang on to our old possessions, our old appliances and our old clothes, but that we should toss them out the second they get worn and buy new ones - to keep the economy going.
Neuroeconomists use devices, like MRIs, to observe the behavior of real people buying and selling things.
People think, "I just purchased a gift instead of buying three random things and packaging them together, " he says.
The mainlanders who, he says, are starting to dominate the new flow of Chinese money into California aren't buying the same things for the moment.
The public is sitting in passive index ETFs now, no need to trade or to have a broker or mutual fund manager buying and selling things on their behalf.
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"We're identifying enterprise accounts, companies that should be buying four or five things from us, " he says.
"I don't know if buying her such expensive things will have a positive effect one way or the other, " he shrugs.
How are they supposed to demonstrate their fitness for more responsibility by doing simple things like buying an alarm clock and showing up for work on time every morning?
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