If housing were like any other consumer good, rising prices should eventually dampen demand.
The asset price method treats the purchase of an asset, such as a house, as it does the purchase of any consumer good.
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That, too, would lead to higher prices for almost every supply chain component and consumer good requiring road transportation, and set in motion a vicious cycle of economic headwinds.
Nomura Securities economist Zhiwei Zhang said to expect policy measures similar to those used in 2008 (consumer good subsidies, infrastructure projects) as well as further action on public housing.
For example, a professor at the top-ranked Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the U.S., has found out an important fact for those deciding on the price of a consumer good.
He said increasingly concentrated ownership did not give the consumer a good deal.
Replay value for the consumer is good for the publisher and developer, especially if they decide to release paid DLC later on.
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"I think the phone is becoming more like a consumer packaged good, " says Youngcho Chi, a senior vice president who runs strategic planning for Samsung's telecom unit.
The most successful companies rely on qualified local management but support it with good consumer information.
Whatever you do and whatever kind of taxpayer you are (business, individual or charity), be a good consumer when it comes to tax advice.
We have now resumed a wider range of rough diamond sales as the market has recovered some poise in the light of continuing good consumer demand.
Then buy Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) (51, WMT ) , which retails affordable consumer staples in good times and bad.
Indeed, as has long been my argument when criticizing various industry practices, I believe that pro-consumer policies are good for the long term viability of video game companies.
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So Blankenship has tried to be a good consumer and figure out what care and medicine she really needs and what seems like excessive ordering by her doctors.
Even with all the positivity and good consumer reactions, it's hard to ignore that HD DVD is still talking thousands, while Blu-ray will be saying millions after the PS3 launch in November.
Incentives for good consumer behavior are nearly nonexistent.
The greatest barriers to good consumer information in higher ed lie within the institutions themselves, and, until higher ed fundamentally changes and adopts an attitude dedicated to full transparency, rankings will remain the primary public source of consumer information.
Consumer stocks, those good to buy in dire times, also went up.
Cloud services must provide quality consumer experience at a good price.
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Now that things are back to the way they always were, it paints the company in a feel good, consumer friendly way that shows how responsive they are to their customer base.
Competition is good for the consumer, but not necessarily for an incumbent technology company, like Microsoft.
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As a consumer, you can feel good knowing that the money from your purchase is going towards a greater cause.
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"All this competition is good for the consumer, " says Jean Hydleman, retail analyst at the Worldsec International brokerage in Hong Kong.
Why should workers suffer under stringent email inbox size limits and PCs with eight-year-old operating systems, he questioned, when the devices available in the consumer space nowadays are so good?
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And while that is good for the consumer, it tends to result in margin pressure across the supply chain as the vendor needs to trim costs in order to maintain their margins.
Today there were some good statistics on consumer confidence that we are pleased about, but understanding that we've probably got many, many months of job loss before we see some job gains in this economy.
In order to maintain a good, consistent consumer experience, both telcos and banks should stick to their current methods of registration, authentication (SIM based) and other data checks deemed necessary for checks while registering a user for financial transactions.
Labor shortage is good news for consumer incomes (at least for those consumers whose labor warrants the higher wages) but only if consumer spending rises at the same or faster pace than consumer incomes, and productivity growth is the same as or exceeds wage growth.
Not a good omen considering that consumer spending accounts for roughly 70% of the U.S. economy.
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