But in the case of goods that change in quality every year, it is much harder to split an increase in nominal ouput or spending between a change in volume and a change in price.
In the case of physical goods, SMBs should be explicit with terms such as delivery time, acceptable product quality, and product performance.
Why use a debit card rather than a credit card, they ask, when the latter offers a month's free credit for prompt bill-payers and better protection in case of defective goods?
The choke point ripples across the economy, forcing some companies to abandon just-in-time shipping and stockpile goods in case of delays.
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In the 6 percent inflation case, although tradable goods prices, like soybeans and corn, are projected to rise to the 4.5 percent inflation target set by the Central Bank, non-tradable prices like services will go as high as 9 percent and pull the IPCA higher as a result.
In this case, once the bogus goods made their way on consignment to reputable auction houses or to other art experts, the sham was revealed.
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What the police are doing is very much a precautionary measure which is to ask people to take steps to protect their goods just in case.
All three names probably belonged to the same person, who was using multiple identities to bid up the price of his goods--a case of shilling that auctioneers punish by removing sellers from their sites.
Their businesses need to have a competitive advantage and the power to raise prices for their goods or services in case inflation hits, or maintain their prices in case of deflation, and they need to be noncyclical businesses.
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There is a strong case to be made that for certain goods and services, cutting out the middle man and providing direct public support is the most efficient, least likely to be captured, method we have available.
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The unseen in this case involves money not spent on other consumer goods not subsidized by government giveaway programs.
Another Anonymous post flagging Operation You've Been Owned, which aims to publicise a US court case that might make it illegal to sell copyrighted goods.
The exhibit makes its case by presenting a variety of innovations, including mass-produced goods and the first known system of writing.
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WTO's rule on process and production methods, which prohibits countries from distinguishing between goods on the basis of the way they have been produced, is a case in point.
"I'll probably just get some water, maybe some canned goods, just to make sure I do have something in the house in case something does happen, " said another concerned shopper.
The Sebago case involves one of the key arguments made by parallel importers, that trademark owners who sell their goods in Europe must be taken to have consented to the sale of other goods that are essentially the same.
It raises prices of the goods and services we buy or keeps them from falling as much as would otherwise be the case.
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"Foxconn produces goods for a lot of different companies, and there's been no direct linkage in this particular case to producing Apple products, " said Mr Innes-Ker.
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