If he (or the country) is deemed trustworthy, a provider may accept the promise of future goods for a note.
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But it surely also applies to the prices of claims on future goods and services, such as equities or property.
In that scenario, we have to ask which claims on those limited future goods and services will be more durable (harder to repudiate) than others.
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This lends further support to a point I wrote about earlier, that the future of virtual goods is not on Facebook, but across the Web and other online devices.
The weaker dollar should encourage more Americans to buy home-produced goods in future.
And the obvious question to ask after that is whether the capital and people working in the future will produce enough goods and services to provide those who have retired with the standard of living that they expect or at least hope to have, based on the dollar value of their retirement savings and entitlement benefits.
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They are quite content to have their capital embodied in physical goods destined for future sale, in shares in industrial undertakings, in real estate which brings in rentals, or in loans to active men engaged in industry and commerce.
Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.
So far, EBay has made more progress in its other two areas of future focus: social commerce and digital goods.
And from the initial success of Street Wars, it expects a larger share of its revenue in the future to come from sales of virtual goods in its games.
So long as these investors can bring in enough income from their investments to offset inflation, it ensures that they will be able to purchase the same amount of goods or services in the future as they can today.
In other words, expect things like "one-of-a-kind" luxury goods to become popular in the near future.
If inflation is defined as a fall in the value of money then the price of future consumption matters as much as the price of goods and services consumed today.
Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
The tariff ceiling for agriculture products is expected to drop to 10.8% from 13.2% and for manufactured goods it will go from 9.5% to 7.3% The final bound import rate will be in place on the date of entry into the WTO on most goods, with roughly 25% of future tariff cuts to be implemented three years later.
In the future the U.S. population will move more goods, consume more food, and require more living space than it does now.
Tough talk about increasing or even maintaining a high price, encourages consumers to invest in lower energy consuming goods (cars, generally), thereby reducing future demand.
The spurt in productivity growth in America has pushed up share prices in anticipation of future productivity gains, and also improved the competitiveness of American goods, thus increasing the dollar's long-term equilibrium level.
At least, says an Argentine official, his government wants in future to apply the common tariff only to a restricted range of goods.
Because it based on ideas, not stocks of goods, and because it is dependent on confidence in the future, it can vanish in an instant.
Digital social gaming is indeed the future, especially revenues derived from huge community-based users, with virtual goods and monetization.
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Readers, please comment and add some luxury goods or services that you would like to see us track in future surveys.
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"Freemium is really a construct of the digital age because there's almost no marginal cost to digital goods, " said Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, " and editor in chief of Wired magazine.
There was the first drop to a negative reading by the Leading Economic Indicators in nine months, the largest decline in durable goods orders since last August, big plunges in new home starts and permits for future starts.
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Goods deliveries to and from the county are delayed and improvement is needed for a sustainable future, they say.
So now, let's take half of the savings that we were spending on war and let's use it to put people back to work rebuilding schools, rebuilding bridges, rebuilding roads, improving our airport systems, improving our ports so that we can move goods and services that will make our economy strong not just now, but in the future.
"With 50% of manufacturing sectors registering negative growth, any sustained growth remains elusive in the sector in the immediate future, " Ms. Kidwai said, referring to a fall in production in sectors such as capital goods.
Fletke and her future husband bartered the videotaping and editing services of their production company, Major Diamond Productions, for the goods and services they needed for their wedding and reception.
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