The notion is that, if any wicked oil companies try to gouge consumers, the DOE can unleash its reserve and force down prices.
At today's levels of world demand, an influx of Iraqi crude could force down prices and make other OPEC members cut production even more than they already have over the past year.
But there are certainly going to be more products like this in the next few years, and that will force prices down.
They argue that Washington bureaucrats could force drug prices down even further, as occurs in the drug benefit for military veterans run by the federal Veterans Administration (VA).
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This is simply due to the fact that regardless of all the new pricing weapons retailers can deploy, and more potentially looming, weak consumer demand will continue to force prices down.
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If successful, Solaria will be another force pushing solar prices down.
The SEC also has to decide whether to force brokerage firms to break down the prices between what clients pay for transaction services and what they pay for research.
When that happens, American consumers and policy-makers alike will need to bear in mind the truth that outed in the Fall of 2008: oil prices are the driving force behind food costs and ethanol helps keep oil prices down.
As more money piles into the business, groups could lose their focus, and competition could push up the prices for deals and force down future returns.
It said T-Mobile had been a "disruptive force" in the industry, aggressively driving down prices.
Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.
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