Apart from some of the industries mentioned above, Japan forms part of the global supply chain and would affect industries around the world.

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Two-fifths of Asian exports, and rising, are intra-regional even if half that share forms part of a global supply-chain anchored in the West.

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Supply chains come in a number of different forms, and some companies use more than one for different parts of their business.

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With other forms of debt either in short supply or too risky, institutional investors are loading up on longer-term government bonds, says Daniel Dektar, chief investment officer of Smith Breeden Associates, a Durham, N.

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To understand how ultra-easy money for a prolonged period of time misguides animal spirits, we define and distinguish two forms, demand-side entrepreneurship and supply-side entrepreneurship.

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Such sanctions can also be undermined by so-called "foreign availability" (or the ability of other foreign companies to step in and supply the same product) and constrain potentially useful people-to-people contact and other forms of bridge-building with potential adversaries or competitor nations.

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