The recent uptrend in gold is one example of the trend and the euphoria surrounding it taking precedent over normal market function.
There are ways for the U.S. government to facilitate startups but they primarily involve getting out of the way and letting the market function.
Otherwise, within current market and legal checks, private sector unions actually perform a helpful market function in ensuring that employers keep up with market wages and working conditions as expeditiously as possible.
More broadly, there are questions to be asked about where the single market stops, and how far new laws need to be passed in order to make the single market function efficiently.
On health care, Huckabee says the current system does not let the free market function because the overwhelming share of the cost is picked up by the employer, while employees, who benefit the most, pay a small fraction of the bill.
The dividend yield for the market is a function of its price-earnings ratio more than the dividend payout ratio on earnings.
Commissioner Barnier told the Parliament that the internal market can only function if there is better dialogue with small businesses and member states.
Public pronouncements crowd out private opinions, and the market ceases to function as a way of aggregating and revealing diverse, private judgments of the world.
Most center around the framework conditions that allow market forces to function properly, so that the seeds sown by investors and entrepreneurs fall on fertile soil.
In the U.S. a lack of job growth and poor home sales data confirm that the recent strength in the home market was a function of the U.S. stimulus.
Nations' reserves are these days mostly used to support or weaken the country's currency, by buying it or selling it in the open market - a function for which gold is unsuited.
So, unless the economy really nose-dives, I suspect the Fed will allow the market system to function normally this time around, allowing economic growth to slow if that is its inclination, and the stock market to adjust to that, without government interference.
Nike controls a staggering 95% of the basketball shoe market already (a function of Michael Jordan much more than James or Kobe Bryant), but it has a new competitor in Under Armour which launched its first basketball shoe this month.
This is a function of every market being different, a factor you must handle carefully to ensure success, Johnson says.
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The corporate-bond market has virtually ceased to function since July 1999, when Daewoo collapsed under the weight of huge debts.
What price-earnings ratio to put on the market is more of a function of the going inflation rate and the confidence level of the recession's depth and duration.
Gasoline (or petrol as it is called in India) is partially deregulated so the price is a function of international market rates whereas diesel is heavily subsidized in the country.
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Considering October of 1987, bubble theorists would likely explain the Oct. 19 crash as a function of a market that similarly spiraled out of control--its impressive rise throughout the '80s a precursor to its ugly, 24.5% collapse.
Davidson argues that the inability of employers to recruit skilled workers, particularly in the manufacturing industry, is not a result of a mismatch between the type of education being undertaken by students and the skill sets demanded by the current job market, but rather a function of low wages being offered by employers.
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By putting the swaps on an exchange, speculators could participate, allowing it to function like a futures market and mitigating the risk.
Policymakers should commit to a detailed vision of how the euro area is expected to function to stabilize the market expectations and dispel the uncertainty.
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By putting the swaps on an exchange, it would be easier for speculators to participate, allowing it to function like a futures market and mitigating risk.
In most developed markets, the primary function of an equity market is to provide price discovery, allowing successful companies to raise capital for profitable investment opportunities.
It is these attributes that allow the company to function as a small market cap company but still do the clinical development traditionally limited to the domain of big pharma.
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Needless to say, adults with low levels literacy are less able to help their children and increase household income due to their limited ability to function efficiently within a market economy.
How do Facebook pages function so that I can market there effectively?
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More broadly, continued inability to address the fiscal issues will signal that the United States government cannot function efficiently to the global market.
And as firms are increasingly organised by function, rather than by regional market, their senior staff are rewarded by what they do rather than where they do it.
For Reagan, the law not only deterred abuse and waste, but was consistent with conservative principles since it essentially privatized a government function and harnessed private sector free market incentives to fight fraud and provide a public good.
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These stocks function best during a calm, bullish market and tend to suffer amid volatility.
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