However, this quickly brings us to the second reason to support video, which is a supply-driven value-add and competitive differentiator.
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"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands.
"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ).
Supply-side driven entrepreneurship misguides animal spirits, wasting resources and talent, fueling asset bubbles that end up in financial crisis like the US recently experienced, the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and the Japanese real estate market collapse of the 1990s.
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The offsetting of refinery shutdowns in the Northeast by, for instance, the expansion of Motiva Enterprises a joint venture between Shell (RDS.A) and Saudi Refining of its Port Arthur, Texas refinery to 600, 000 barrels a day, may also help prevent supply-constraint driven gasoline prices spikes.
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The shuttering of various European and U.S. northeast refinery operations of late due to unfavorable margins and a difficult lending environment could also eventually lead to supply-constraint driven gasoline price spikes when demand starts to pick up again towards the summer peak driving season period, say analysts.
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Technologies need to advance in a logical supply-and-demand-driven order rather than the fits and starts of porkbarrel science.
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Market-driven demand grew while government-controlled supply shrank.
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At the moment, they are furious about having no say over what amounts to a "tax" levied in the form of extortionate fuel prices driven by the supply-manipulating OPEC oil cartel.
In contrast to the consumer-driven auto business, industries that involve only business-to-business transactions in the supply chain will be relatively unaffected by the Sino-Japan political strains, Francis Bassolino, managing director for Alaris, told the Shanghai FCC lunch.
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There is little chance of further supply-side reforms under Angela Merkel's consensus-driven grand coalition.
It's a demand-driven commodity, where the reserve margin on the supply side has shrunk to under 2 million barrels per day.
That's because Asia's banks will supply less and shareholders will offer more capital in a consumer- and market-driven economy.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.
When interest rates are allowed to float free of central bank intervention, the happy consequence of such a market-driven price is that in reaching natural levels conceived in the marketplace, the supply of and demand for credit is equalized.
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