Mr Bernanke wrote another paper with Mr Gertler arguing that central banks would do better not to try to stabilise asset prices but instead to concentrate on a target for consumer-price inflation.
However, aggressive domestic expansion could lead to over-saturation of target consumer markets.
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After staying below the government's 2.0% target for three months, consumer-price inflation rose from 1.8% in the year to September to 2.1% in October.
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Slim Jim's target consumer niche is the elusive 18- to 29-year-old guy.
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As college is a major life stage for our consumer target (guys, 18-24 year old), we knew that we needed to be there with him creating cool and relevant experiences that engage him in a unique way.
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While the U.S. has a number of independent toy retailers, Wal-Mart and Target fight Toys R Us for consumer sales.
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Fortunately, the group is a collection of bellwether retailers, like Wal-Mart and Target, that often neatly underscore consumer sentiment.
Large stores like Wal-Mart and Target will give an indication of consumer appetite while stores like Home Depot and Loews will provide a proxy for activity levels in construction and manufacturing.
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That's great news for consumers but poses a problem for consumer electronics manufacturers that want to target an ultra-high-end niche.
You have a huge grouping of consumer data, so you can micro-target messages to common groups, finding pleasure points and anger points on issues.
Earnings of other companies like Lowes and Home Depot will provide additional feedback on the state of the construction sector, while Wal-Mart and Target will help gauge the strength of the consumer.
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Moreover, the MPC still has room for manoeuvre to counter the contractionary effects of additional budgetary curbs, because its central forecast shows consumer-price inflation below the 2% target in two years' time, the horizon it focuses on when setting monetary policy.
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China has gotten rich over the last thirty years, in part, from exporting the small mass-market consumer goods that fill the shelves of my local Target before they make their way into my apartment.
Research shows that the Hispanic consumer in particular is influenced by value-added impressions that target them specifically.
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In August the bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) forecast that consumer-price inflation would fall back to its official 2% target, but only after a period of economic weakness had drawn its sting.
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, had to write an open letter to the chancellor this week to explain why consumer-price inflation had diverged so far from the 2% target, reaching 3.5% in the year to January.
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