Industry checks find no reason for worry about supply chain effects from the issues in Japan.
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Most central banks would probably increase the money supply to monetize the price effects of oil supply shortage.
To let it rise from zero this year to 55 percent next year seems absurd on fairness grounds, but it would also have severe supply-side effects.
But these big supply-side effects are implausible at best.
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While Bernanke was accurate to say inflation and the effects of supply chain disruption in Japan would prove to be transitory, he still holds on to his prediction that economic activity will pick up in coming quarters.
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The theoretical prediction about the effects of food supply on sex ratio has also been confirmed.
While helium users are dealing with the effects of limited supply, Congress is working on critical legislation that will continue to ensure a needed source of helium until the private sector has enough helium production to meet worldwide capacity.
Price controls, even if laboriously tweaked, inevitably produce inefficiencies, reduce supply and cause bad side-effects.
The polyurethanes, performance products, advanced materials and textile effects segments manufacture and supply organic chemicals, while the pigments segment produces inorganic chemicals.
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"(ii) reasonable alternatives to the action with adverse energy effects and the expected effects of such alternatives on energy supply, distribution, and use" (Sec. 2(b)).
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses and so help foster economic activity.
Germany and other European Union nations have lately begun to confront their own outbreaks of BSE, with traumatic effects on public confidence in the food supply and the governments they hold responsible for assuring its safety.
The geopolitical events, resource demand versus supply, and worldwide financial risk are having the major effects on sentiment.
While many were surprised by the dramatic and globally-resonating effects that small changes can cause in the global supply network, we were again reminded of the necessity of a multi-dimensional, dynamic supply strategy capable of nimbly responding to challenges.
And I think that's the big worry here that as we have an oversupply, a large supply of homes on the market, we get these ripple effects to the default rates that ultimately lead to less lending and that ultimately bring down, slow down the economy, particular in certain communities.
The fundamental point is that, in the presence of inelastic supply curves, demand-side subsidies face a headwind of adverse price effects, while direct public provision gets a tail wind of favorable price effects.
Furthermore, while much of the recent oil-price increase was demand-driven, and thus expected to have relatively benign economic effects, any sizeable outages owing to Katrina could cause a supply shock similar to those that repeatedly battered the world economy in the 1970s.
But the transplant's effects faded over time, and the cells are in such short supply that only hundreds of people have been able to get them.
First, and most important, agencies are to utilize, to the extent permitted by law, the Statement of Energy Effects in their decisionmaking to improve the quality of agency actions affecting energy supply, distribution, or use.
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
The malign effects exist because there's a gap between the demand for and the supply of unskilled labor and that gap cannot be filled legally under existing immigration laws.
If the war is short and its effects small, optimists hope that buyers will return, encouraged by lack of supply, low interest rates, which make mortgage debts appear relatively cheap to service, and a fairly benign economy.
Given the severity of the situation and the extensive supply constraints caused by the disruptions, including those described by our primary competitor, the effects on our industry are likely to be substantial and extend over multiple quarters.
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Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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This will have the dual effects of nurturing rental demand, as displaced former homeowners seek new lodgings, and of adding supply to many markets, as foreclosed properties re-enter the market.
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If he's wrong - if there is, in fact, a faster growth path available, which would not undermine market confidence, then the government's strategy could be making the supply side problem a self-fulfilling prophesy, by condemning us to unnecessarily slow growth which could have permanent effects on Britain's potential output.
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