Most of the traders in the Saturday market are self-employed or run small businesses with only a few employees.
After the subprime market began to self-destruct in late 2006, the viability of the insurers was called into question. (See "MBIA's Startling Exposure Disclosure" and "You Should Worry About Ambac").
The housing market may already be self-correcting, and we should be wary of any over-correction.
The next step for Groupon and for other businesses targeting the local market will be enabling self-service.
The other is that market panic can become self-fulfilling, in many different ways.
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This kind of modesty has often held women back in organizations, but the need to use social media professionally makes it overcoming a reluctance to self-market more important.
As digital sales surge, publishers are casting a worried eye towards the previously scorned self-published market.
Done right, this generates the kind of self-sustaining market leadership that helped Japanese technology firms to terrify American rivals in the 1980s.
No other company had more than 10 percent of the self-publishing market.
The British self-help market is tiny by comparison, but is growing fast.
The retail self-service market could be a growth driver for NCR.
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Even for those who perceive recessions as market failures rather than a self-correcting force, and thus think recovery requires help, politicians cannot solve economic riddles.
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Mark Hulbert is the editor of the Hulbert Financial Digest, which tracks the recommendations of a wide range of investing newsletters written by self-appointed market experts.
Some are already timidly criticizing the International Monetary Fund, the speculators, the capital flows across borders, the right of the self-appointed market forces to discipline elected governments.
Index investors were not the victims of dozens of Ponzi scams or hundreds of multi-billion dollar corporate and municipal bankruptcies, nor were they they casualties of poor investment advice from self-proclaimed market experts.
Bowker also reiterated results from a 2011 study which revealed the four major players in the self-publishing services market.
Which is, presumably, what the self-help book market should do to itself.
The Americans generally prefer to rely on self-regulation and market pressures.
Yet, despite the real energy cost savings and environmental benefits associated with improving home energy efficiency, a series of barriers have prevented a self-sustaining retrofit market from forming.
But not all of the new attitude is brash and self-mocking, insist market researchers.
There is also a danger that the market may turn its fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy by starving needy companies of cash and forcing them over the edge.
Still, if self-discipline flags, market discipline may play a role.
There could be a dozen or more self-proclaimed experts and a market in total disarray.
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Nobody pays more than small businesses and individuals who are self-employed in the insurance market, because they've got no leverage.
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And I am not talking about industry partners who might reasonably be viewed as market opponents (such as Lulu in the self-publishing business).
Former currency minister Sakakibara warned it might happen and the Bank of Japan had to act against raging market forces in a bid to prevent a self-reinforcing rumor-mill from strengthening the yen.
The report noted that providing clear, consistent information is critical to building the foundation for a self-sustaining home energy retrofit market that will save consumers money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create high-quality, clean energy jobs.
While most traders and investors still believe a debt-limit-hike agreement will be reached before the U.S. government defaults on its payments, the market place is becoming more jittery as the self-imposed August 2 deadline approaches for lawmakers.
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