In the next couple of years, the same factors of supply and demand that sent up prices of food and fiber will send them down.
The price of natural gas is influenced by several factors including current and anticipated supply and demand of natural gas, temperature changes, amount of gas stored, pipeline charges for transporting gas, and cost of gas for end users.
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This is a reasonable argument based on irrefutable laws of supply and demand, but other factors exist that affect the supply of currency in the economy.
Most of it factors into supply and demand and the fact that students have few alternatives when the prof says X book is required.
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In the case of interest rates, the determinative factors should be the supply of savings available to lend and the demand for money by people and business who want to borrow.
For Tony Volpon, a managing director in charge of emerging markets fixed income in the Americas over at Nomura Securities in New York, there are distinct factors changing the demand and supply of labor in the direction of tighter conditions.
They cannot distinguish between price changes that come about because of supply-and-demand factors and those that arise because of monetary mistakes.
But when combined with other factors affecting demand and supply, the concept of energy independence comes into view over the next couple of decades.
While much of the price growth is due to old-fashioned laws of supply and demand, there are less predictable factors too.
Global supply and demand factors do not fully explain the volatility of oil, he added, but the Fed found no evidence that speculation or investment was an important factor either.
Supply and demand may be one of the most important factors in determining pricing, though industry has a huge amount to do with it.
These factors mean that there is now a big north-south divide in the supply of, and demand for, council houses.
In the latter half of 2008, the prices of every major commodity plummeted, but not because traditional supply and demand factors were unbalanced.
Like many of his brethren, Bernanke confuses price changes that result from supply-and-demand factors in a free market with those that result from debasing the currency.
In fact, if you ask me what the level of employment will be five or 10 years from now, I would probably ignore demand factors and focus on supply factors such as the expected growth in the labor force due to demographics and factors affecting the labor force participation rate.
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