Investors make a mistake when they spread their money across whole life insurance, annuities, hedge funds, private placements and other investments with high fees, lockup periods, illiquidity and no public pricing.
And city leaders might in turn overcome their aversion to the efficient pricing of public resources such as parking and busy roads.
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The CSRC is also intervening more heavily in the pricing of initial public offerings.
And recent polls show that if people are really convinced the revenues will go to public transport, they will even support road pricing.
Blockbusters, such as Eli Lilly's Prozac, went off-patent and drug makers came under public pressure to soften their stance on drug pricing and patent enforcement in poor countries.
Company's plans to go public this fall were reportedly canceled because of poor pricing.
Suppliers have a better overview of pricing in their product categories, than public sector buyers do.
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Improving public transport is another frequently proposed alternative to road pricing.
Understand that with regard to higher education there is a fundamental public purpose to be served and even though the market may be an extraordinary device for sorting, for pricing, for determining who gets what, ultimately the market in the service of the public good is the most powerful potential device we have for ensuring that higher education serves public purposes.
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Mr Neil said ministers were confident that they could demonstrate that minimum pricing was justified "on the basis of public health and social grounds".
Councillor David Begg, convenor of Edinburgh's transport committee, chaired a meeting earlier this month of Scottish councils to discuss how to finance public-transport improvements with revenues from a road-pricing ring around Edinburgh.
Data on pricing and quality of care would be made available to the public.
Minimum pricing was backed by the police, doctors, nurse, public health experts and all four chief medical officers in the UK, Ms Sturgeon told the chamber.
Early-stage drug developers can have a difficult time pricing and trading even in perfect market conditions, although the last one that came public, Tesaro Inc.
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