In their paper Consumer City, Ed Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz argue that cities lost their manufacturing bases when they lost the transportation cost advantage.
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By providing liquidity to issuers of consumer asset backed paper, the Federal Reserve facility will enable a broad range of institutions to step up their lending, enabling borrowers to have access to lower cost consumer finance and small business loans.
The consumer segment will include the old consumer digital segment, plus paper and output systems, event imaging solutions, consumer film and intellectual property.
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That is deadline time on two key trade issues: renewal of the semiconductor arrangement and completion of the investigation into unfair competition for consumer film and photographic paper.
Paper and consumer care products maker Kimberly-Clark said first quarter earnings fell 8.9%, largely as a result of a sharp increase in costs that the company pays for materials like wood pulp.
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In December, the company credited waning demand deteriorating for its office, home and cleaning products, despite its strong portfolio of consumer staples brands that include Paper Mate, Rubbermaid and Graco.
More useful wood, in this context, mainly means wood that is more useful to the paper industry, an enormous consumer of trees.
"Paper might be the most consumer sensitive of all because it's used in packaging - and packaging is used for everything, " said Minter, who has just finished writing a book about the globalization of the waste and recycling industry.
Yet, if anything, the paper underscores two basic truths about understanding consumer behavior and social media.
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In 1999, at the height of the bull market, he co-wrote a paper arguing that targeting asset prices when consumer inflation was low would tend to increase, not decrease, economic instability.
In 2006, the company introduced a hot beverage paper cup with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and in 2008 it rolled out a new plastic cup that has less of an environmental impact than its original plastic cups.
Paper checks remain the dominant method for paying consumer bills and are also extensively used in retail and business-to-business payments.
The commission, which aims to make the directive more consumer-friendly, last year laid out in a Green Paper more than a dozen issues for possible reform.
The paper is to be published in the upcoming issue of Journal of Consumer Research and outlines how our last names may play a surprising role in our spending habits.
It seems as if a story runs in the paper every day reporting another high-profile breach of security that exposed consumer credit card information and social media accounts.
So it makes some sense on paper for Ford to attempt to get C-Max into the same consumer conversations as Prius, which still absolutely dominates purchases and consideration in the combined U.S. market for conventional hybrids, plug-ins and EVs.
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But if paper money is being debased, the evidence has yet to show up in consumer prices.
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Failing to post consumer warnings and allowing underage consumers to tan without parental consent is also common, according to the paper.
The commission, which aims to make the directive more consumer-friendly, laid out more than a dozen issues for possible reform in a"Green Paper"last year.
"Passengers have very few rights and many of the ones on paper are not really enforced, " says Paul Hudson, executive director of the nonprofit Aviation Consumer Action Project, which advocates for airline passengers.
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Talk of the newspaper selling out its integrity was spurred not only by the supposedly coincidental resignation of the paper's editor, Shelby Coffey, but also by the appointment of a former head of consumer marketing as general manager for news.
IR To the extent that softer and more luxurious toilet paper is now the norm, it can be seen as a shining success story in the evolution of consumer rights in Britain.
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