According to the survey, Americans are compensating for the economy by purchasing more store-brand or generic items (39.9%), comparison shopping more online (29.8%), and shopping for sales (50.0%).
Investable assets sitting in cash will erode your purchasing power as the economy slowly grinds toward improvement because prices of most goods and services will rise with economic activity.
The IMF forecasts that, adjusted for purchasing power, China's economy will be bigger than America's by the end of 2016.
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As purchasing power is lost throughout the economy, housing prices tumble again.
Moreover, he also has stated in various venues that in two decades the Chinese economy could, in purchasing power parity terms, end up twice the size of the American one.
The Internet as a whole is very diverse in technologies and software, which is why it is so robust, but we are going to keep seeing these large entities suffering large if not global outages as long as they value economy of scale in purchasing and maintenance over true system diversity.
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Some consumers may be wary of purchasing gift cards due to the shaky economy.
"We have diversified our route network, focused on providing the best product in Upper Class, Premium Economy and Economy, hedged our fuel purchasing and built up a strong cash position, " he added.
Although the deterioration in the Scottish economy over the summer has been stemmed, the Bank's monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report said this amounted to very little change in the Scottish economy.
Some American executives in China believe the Chinese will allow the yuan to float more freely once its export-driven economy becomes more dependent on consumer purchasing domestically.
But the act of shopping, by which I mean individuals making price-feature-value tradeoffs for the products and services they are considering purchasing, is absolutely fundamental to a healthy economy.
The World Bank estimates that, in terms of purchasing power, India could have the fourth largest economy in the world by 2020.
But, by purchasing government bonds, it could still affect the economy through inflationary expectations, a fall in the exchange rate and a rise in equity prices.
However, we depend on our clients making purchasing decisions about services, and uncertainty in the economy often causes a slowdown in taking decisions about the use of outside consultants.
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But its booming economy of recent years has increased the purchasing power of its population and moved an estimated 20 million out of poverty, with the majority of the population now in the middle class for the first time ever.
It siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power.
He wants to increase the purchasing power of millions of poorer Thais so as to make the economy less reliant on the vagaries of the export markets.
Federal Reserve officials will meet next week to assess the economy, including whether or not to extend its bond-purchasing programme aimed at spurring growth.
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The Bank of Scotland's purchasing managers index (PMI) said activity in Scotland's private sector economy expanded at a solid pace.
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Their relative prosperity over the last decade has largely been maintained by the purchasing power of the euro which itself has been buoyed by the strong German economy.
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The Scottish economy gained momentum at the start of the year, according to a survey of purchasing managers.
The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index unexpectedly fell to a reading of 49 in May, which reflects a contracting economy.
Such outlays depend far more on the vagaries of Pentagon purchasing than the state of the business cycle and say very little about the strength of the underlying economy.
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Eventually society exhausts the carrying capacity of the truly productive and leverages itself with so much debt that the private economy is crowded out or manipulates the medium of exchange in a way that destroys the purchasing power of working class people.
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This month's report from purchasing managers, for example, revealed a sharp deceleration in services, for so long the engine of the economy.
And in a more inflationary economy, lenders will demand, and get, higher nominal interest to compensate for the erosion of purchasing power.
In recent years purchasing houses and other big-ticket items based - doing so with debt really, really helped buoy the economy when many other things weren't growing.
The Chinese economy is set to become as large as that of the US by around 2016 when assessed in purchasing power parity terms, which factor in price differences between countries, it added.
The increasing purchasing power of its population, and pent-up demand for goods, is an important factor in its solid economy and relative protection from the woes of the world.
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