Richard Soultanian, director at energy consulting firm NUS Consulting Group in Park Ridge, NJ, says that looking at growth from an energy demand perspective, the economy looks tepid in a best case scenario.
"We fundamentally believe that Midtown Manhattan, from a supply and demand perspective, is going to be at a point where the market is going to turn and you're going to see significant rent growth, " Mr. Rechler said.
Whether this is a tipping point, or the result of a slow build in consumer demand is a matter of perspective.
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From a medium-term perspective, while slowing external demand and rising domestic production costs will continue to pose headwinds for Chinese exports, some encouraging developments lead to the ongoing optimism on China, even if it is more subdued.
This is a world that operates from an inside-out perspective, pushing products at customers, parsing and manufacturing demand, tweaking the value chain to achieve ever greater efficiencies, and concerned about outputs more than outcomes.
Less supply and more demand benefits everyone, not least of which, or depending on your perspective, most importantly, individual investors.
Instead of focusing on aggregate demand replacement, policymakers should view government stimulus spending from an economic return perspective that focuses on the potential value created by government spending versus the potential value created by private spending.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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There is really no other frontier that compares to Africa, from the perspective of the population, the resources that are available, the demand for them and the fact that over 60 percent or 70 percent of that population is under the age of 20 which shows growth opportunities.
To put that into perspective, 2.5 million bpd of ethanol would be an annual demand of 38 billion gallons of ethanol versus the current 12.5 billion gallons produced in the Midwest.
To keep things in perspective, startups are easier now than they have ever been: Servers on demand (EC2, Heroku, Linode) and rapid development technologies (Rails, Django) make it possible to develop a custom-built online platform in a relatively short time.
Since data on Japan and South Korea's professions in demand could not be found, Singapore was added to our list of countries to provide a perspective on Asian countries who are developing policies to attract professionals from around the world.
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