Leaving many to think that the sector has reached a plateau from what has seemed to be a bullish inventory supply cycle.
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He criticized the Federal Reserve's decision to tighten the money supply early in the cycle.
Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
Beneath the psychological swings lies the root cause: the boom-bust cycle is due to government manipulation of the money supply, as the Austrian school of economists have demonstrated.
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To supply the extra juice, utilities turn on inefficient single-cycle gas turbines, which turn 25% of the fuel's energy into electricity, as opposed to 45% for combined-cycle plants that use turbine exhaust to make steam to run a second generator.
We had 80% in early 2000 after a supply boom and the Asian financial crisis, and at some point in the cycle that went down to 1%.
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While iron ore, metallurgical coal, copper, and crude oil faced temporary supply side disruptions that boosted prices excessively, the longer-term, commodity super cycle remains intact.
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"We are moving into a new phase of the multifamily housing cycle, a more typical phase, characterized by higher levels of apartment supply and incrementally greater competition from for-sale housing, " David Stockert, chief executive of Post Properties Inc.
That, too, would lead to higher prices for almost every supply chain component and consumer good requiring road transportation, and set in motion a vicious cycle of economic headwinds.
Without that pent-up demand, resources freed from supply-side measures and austerity get saved, not spent, and no self-reinforcing cycle is triggered.
Thanks to supply-chain technology and a very good CIO, Ralph Szygenda, General Motors was able to shrink the development cycle of a new Chevy car or truck from 60 months to 24--with 18 just around the corner.
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