In some cases (the European Central Bank or the Bank of England) this is because of direct purchases of bonds.
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Conservative central bankers worry that it would still break the rule that bans direct purchases by the ECB, in spirit at least.
Aside from making direct purchases, consumers were using their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to compare prices in order to get the best deals.
Content acquisition expenses consist of costs incurred by Netflix in obtaining content from studios, distributors and other suppliers through direct purchases, revenue sharing agreements and license agreements.
Altisource Residential hopes its strategy will result in "a lower acquisition price and therefore a higher return relative to competitors that focus on direct purchases of single-family rental properties, " according to the prospectus.
Not the case for our transfer payments and direct government purchases.
India's growth model has been to run a small current-account deficit, financed with high-quality capital inflows, such as foreign direct investment and equity purchases.
First, the direct impacts will be an almost certain drop in purchases of IT goods and services by Federal agencies, with a secondary but lesser decline in state and local IT purchases.
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The Social Security Administration has a program called Direct Express, a debit card that can be used for purchases and cash withdrawals without a bank account.
And as online bill-payment becomes more common, direct transfers out of bank accounts may also be used more widely for other purchases on the Internet.
It is difficult to quantify if or how asset purchases drive production, but there is little doubt they are having a direct impact on capital markets.
For Mac users, Microsoft is also developing a substitute for the Zune client that won't enable Zune store purchases but will allow sideloading of non-DRM content, including a direct hook into iTunes.
The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.
Direct investment by U.S. companies in China, Chinese exports to the U.S. and Chinese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities are all well off their peak growth rates.
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