Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.
But a select few will see the writing on the wall and transform themselves from within, so they can stay relevant in a new world where education is a freely traded commodity subject to the same pricing, supply and demand constraints as every other commodity on planet earth.
Electricity is a commodity that is driven by supply and demand.
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In the latter half of 2008, the prices of every major commodity plummeted, but not because traditional supply and demand factors were unbalanced.
India's large population means that even a small increase in coffee consumption by individuals can affect global supply and demand for the commodity.
Throughout his political career, Gore was a one-man calamity for agricultural innovations that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and for an agricultural commodity supply-demand balance that would keep food prices low.
This trade has done a marvelous job of driving up those prices well beyond what would make sense if prices were set solely on the basis of supply and demand for the commodity.
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In general, the Republican proposal would see the value of the dollar swinging randomly based on global patterns of supply and demand in a volatile commodity market that tends to follow its own mysterious logic.
Over the past two years, some of the main drivers of Chinese inflation have been excess liquidity combined with strong domestic demand and supply shocks to food prices and commodity prices, according to Chang.
But is the recent gyration in oil prices a function of supply and demand or is it a sudden rush in or out of commodity index funds?
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