Inflation starts at the point of supply.
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It is predicted that by 2020, Chinese demand for crude oil will match that of the U.S., and one can only wonder at what point supply of such critical commodities will fail.
They will also improve technologically and from a quality point of view, and the large supply of capital now available in China ensures that they will be well funded.
Which is still the flip side of the Starbucks growth story: At what point will it exhaust the supply of customers willing to pay a premium for coffee?
In their second report they both point to the inelastic nature of supply and demand for food and also claim that food prices move much more than supply and or demand for food.
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So whereas a few decades ago POS manufacturers would only be interested in designing a machine that suited the needs of the retailer, now they have to take into account the supply warehouse and the point of manufacture.
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The industry's advocates point to other benefits: security of supply, environmental benefits, and so on.
Beginning in April 2013, Brightstar will be Target Mobile's new supply chain and point-of-activation technology provider, and MarketSource will be the in-store sales services partner.
The fundamental point is that, in the presence of inelastic supply curves, demand-side subsidies face a headwind of adverse price effects, while direct public provision gets a tail wind of favorable price effects.
Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).
Supply-chain technology also will march in the direction of standards and ubiquity. (Think of personal computers.) At that point, decisive advantage will go to companies that use their supply chains to boost their rate of hit products.
But why is the whole process of resolving the issue of supply routes in such trouble at this point?
At that point private-sector economists reached for their remaining supply of credulity and found, unsurprisingly, that it had run out.
Before Fukushima, a "nuclear renaissance" -- as it was termed in the press -- seemed well underway, except for this point: Nuclear power, as a total of world energy supply, has been in steady decline for the past decade.
They point out that diarrhea is sometimes caused by inadequate refrigeration of the food supply, which it sometimes is, and that increased temperatures will lead to more of this problem.
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He said Hinkley Point C will provide a "supply chain investment and a large number of apprenticeships for our young people".
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Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.
This upside is justifiable if Apple is able to sell iPhone 5 at a higher price point and curb its manufacturing costs while ensuring smoother distribution and management of its supply chain.
Officials say that at one point earlier this year there was only a half-day's supply of gasoline in all of Baghdad, and gas lines stretched out of sight.
The coffee supply chain example above illustrates the multiple touch points within the supply chain, and each touch point contains important information about the integrity of the cargo being shipped.
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Ironically, the turning-point came earlier this year, when it was suggested that, as the supply of Treasury bonds dwindles thanks to the federal government's surplus, mortgage-agency debt could replace them as the benchmark used for pricing other fixed-income securities.
Supply siders, and I consider myself one of them, might point out that if Bush had hung out in Crawford (TX) throughout his presidency that the economy would have suffered for the 2003 tax cuts on income and capital gains not being passed.
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The point is that a qualitative estimate of the demand is around one billion shares compared to the supply of about 250 million shares.
Of course Apple has dealt with supply issues before, and done very well, but still, this is a point of note.
Unless the laws of supply and demand have been repealed, it is hard to believe that there is no point at which ever-lower unemployment rates produce wage pressure.
For at some point it will be true that the demand for virgin ore will be at least partially displaced by the growing supply of scrap.
My mention of mineral resource vulnerability may surprise some but I should point out the heavy dependency of rare earth minerals in technology such as mobile devices and consumer electronics, and the limited supply we have.
It was at that point that the powerful Henry Crown of Chicago became the biggest shareholder in General Dynamics, merging it with his sprawling construction supply business and beginning a six-decade relationship between GD and the wealthy Crown family that persists to this day.
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