That is, it came out of nowhere, provided actual new resources and if anything caused consumer prices to go down as a result of cheaper gas bills.
Foreign investors are showing a strong interest in the country's economic potential, not only for its natural resources but also for its consumer base of 60 million people.
There are ways to enhance consumer protections without limiting the ability of banking regulators to use their considerable resources and powers over banks to directly enforce consumer compliance in banks.
Samsung has invested a great deal of resources in branding itself as a fashionable consumer electronics brand.
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The marshaling of those resources will only occur if the US consumer base begins to show significant interest in the game on television.
But compared to the resources available to Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Schapiro is living large with her regulatory budget.
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In the early 1990s the company squandered enormous resources and billions of dollars on a series of failed consumer products like the Newton PDA. Its efforts to do everything itself, building capabilities as varied as cutting-edge hardware development and volume manufacturing, led to huge losses and massive layoffs.
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That puts the consumer back in charge of health care resources.
One has to do with the acquisition of resources to feed the Chinese industrial machine and its growing consumer market.
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In a market-based economy, scarce resources seek profit and are allocated to sectors of the economy where consumer demand is high and there are potential profits.
Working collaboratively across state lines and international borders to fight human and drug trafficking, money laundering and consumer fraud is a far better use of law enforcement resources than arresting landscapers and nannies.
Deeper shifts will also be necessary: a strengthening of consumer society in China, for example, and a reallocation of resources towards tradable goods and services in Britain and America.
For a list of resources to sell or just donate unwanted electronics, check out digitaltips.org, a site from the Consumer Electronics Association.
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These educational reforms are crucial if Thailand is to attract the kind of foreign investment that boosts its productivity, rather than just extracting the country's resources and tapping its consumer markets.
So while the tasks and expectations of the SEC have increased greatly under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act its resources have not kept pace.
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"It has focused on its other lines, such as handsets, but given attention and resources, it could take a larger share of the music player market, " says Susan Kevorkian, a director of consumer market research at IDC.
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