So the cost of trade continues to fall, and that lowers the effective cost of everything that's traded: raw materials, labor, durable assets, consumer goods, capital, commodities and money itself.
Open borders can of course cost trade, to some, as they bring it to others.
In a moment, we'll tell you about the fight over the trillions of dollars that this cap and trade system will cost.
Most of the online firms are now rapidly transforming themselves from low-cost trade-executors into electronic financial-service companies offering a full range of retail products, from share-trading to insurance.
Thus, the failure of the Europeans to comply with trade treaties has cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars in exports and destroyed tens of thousands of jobs.
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It is one of ruthless cost control and mercenary treatment to providers of labor (workers and staff) and capital (not just by beating down bank loan rates but also, primarily, by demanding from suppliers extended low or no-cost trade credit).
We tell you how to be a cut-rate Ted Turner by buying into a shared ranch ( Living Large on Less), how to trade off the cost of a house against the cost of private-school tuition ( Public Choice) and how to get more from your greens fees ( Golf A La Carte).
But framing the question in this way does not compel students to make rational quality-cost trade-offs because after colleges clear the minimum, it is no easier for students to get loans to colleges that offer a stellar return on investment than it is to get them for colleges that offer a poor one.
If the payback is not large enough to justify the cost of the loan, although a tariff will certainly help the business owner get his trade secret without any cost to him, the cost of the tariff is diversified across all of society.
The downside is that there are trade-offs including cost and impact on your business.
Catcher Travis d'Arnaud, the prize of the off-season trade with Toronto that cost the Mets Dickey, hit .343 this spring, providing a tantalizing glimpse at his ability.
It is essential that people understand that the income of professionals is a cost to them, and that immigration and trade policies that restrict access to lower-cost alternatives is government intervention in the market.
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That should not be since imports are the benefits from trade and exports are the cost.
And they can trade online for a lower cost than mutual funds pay.
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In an economy closed to flows of trade and finance, the cost will take the form of lower incomes.
But diversified asset classes cost more to trade and involve higher management fees, expenses that eat into pension-fund returns.
The artificial scarcity cap-and-trade creates will increase the cost of energy and electricity, making U.S. companies less competitive at a time of intensifying global competition.
In practical terms, it means that you have to take economic cost-benefit trade-offs into account in environmental laws, and keep environmental trade-offs in mind with economic development.
He suggests working out a deal with your broker in which the net cost of the trade to you is an agreed-upon markup, adjusted up or down by the movement of wholesale bond prices for the brief period when you are on the sidelines.
These include the transaction costs inherent in a trading strategy (even if the cost of a trade has dropped dramatically in the past 10 years) and limited or no access to the vast computing power that competitors will be using to crunch the numbers.
The OECD argues that the cost of new border restrictions could increase the cost of foreign trade by around 1% to 3%, and could lead to a reduction in trade flows by several times as much - by between 3% and 9% - more than counterbalancing the savings made by tariff cuts in the last round of trade talks.
The trade-off for the societal cost of this lost information should be the deterrent effect from criminal prosecutions.
But the cost of traipsing to trade shows in new markets was high.
On this assumption, the net budgetary cost roughly balances the trade benefits.
The shake-up of the three top brands should save millions of pounds that will offset duty hikes and cost increases, the trade magazine says.
According to The Banker, an authoritative trade publication, Citi's 1999 cost-to-income ratio was 67.63%, compared with HSBC's 54.04%.
But it is incredibly hard to value raw metals, Mr Goodhart argued, so the cost of using them in trade is high.
During our testimony we were amazed that the Senate Banking Committee was willing to allow industry insiders to claim ignorance regarding simple matters such as the cost of executing a securities trade.
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In addition to cost, though, the trade-off to all that armor is some extra heft: the Spectre weighs in at 3.97 pounds and measures 20mm thick, making it the chubbiest 13-inch Ultrabook we've seen yet.
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