At the same time, Americans get lower-cost consumer technologies that enable them to innovate and create.
The auto industry selling rate now holds over 14 million in a firm used car market, low cost consumer financing and the aging car population.
Free trade vastly expands the market opportunities for U.S. tech companies, while at home Americans get lower-cost consumer technologies that enable them to innovate and create.
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.
Last month, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) said that the cost of consumer credit licences should be raised in order to deter loan sharks and other unscrupulous lenders.
In 2007, for example, Gov. Mitch Daniels created the Healthy Indiana Plan, which funded 95% of the cost of consumer-directed health savings accounts for low-income residents.
While the cost of EPR would be built into the cost of consumer products, the legislation would eliminate the fee consumers currently pay for city- or county-provided recycling.
Or rather, to be more accurate, the marginal cost to the consumer closer to the marginal cost of production for the producer.
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The central bank doubled its main interest rate, but at the cost of killing consumer demand.
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This could be viable for the future, but it also puts more of the cost on the consumer.
Misplaced confidence might be a consequence of the financial services industry, which handles credit card hacking briskly and with little out-of-pocket cost to the consumer.
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Premium increases would have been even higher in 2003--an estimated average 18%--if not for increased consumer cost-sharing through higher deductibles, copayments and coinsurance, the study said.
One of the things that makes the cost to the consumer so high is that they are paying significant markups to cover dealer, sales representative and designer commissions.
That means transferring the operating cost onto the consumer.
And there is no cost to the consumer.
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What is true for the United States and Europe also holds true for countries such as Mexico: Technological progress in the mobile telephony market has led to unprecedented access to information and services, reduction in consumer cost and has lifted millions of people of people out of poverty, bridging the digital divide.
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There will, however, be a cost: protecting the consumer from folly or fraud will be harder.
All the cost benefit of buying consumer was erased in one cycle of purchasing in less than 1 year.
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In other words, run your business, pass the cost on to the consumer and figure out a way to make a profit.
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Mr. Sharma said he sees an opportunity in the Indian market and hopes to sell products with better features at an affordable cost to the Indian consumer.
Loans with rates and fees above certain thresholds are supposed to be designated "high cost" by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and thus subject to fewer legal protections.
Consumer food cost inflation, relative to all other goods, has risen to twice its 2005-2007 rate of increase as well due to sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.
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Unfortunately, however, retailers ordered holiday inventory when raw material prices were at all-time highs, so they will be passing along those cost increases to the consumer in order to preserve margins, the firm said.
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While states and colleges share responsibility to keep down the rising cost of college, improved consumer disclosures can ensure that students and families make wise decisions when investing in higher education.
Launching in the coming weeks, the Roku Streaming Stick is an easy and cost-effective way for consumer electronics manufacturers to add the proven Roku streaming platform to a device that features Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL).
If there is some loss of consumer choice, the cost may be outweighed by efficiencies from bundling.
It is very different because here the consumer is bearing the cost.
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