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When we hold the price of gasoline below what the market will bear, we create an artificial gap between the number of gallons buyers want to buy and the number of gallons sellers are willing to sell.
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Also, as the seller would not have to deal with shipping issues because the product can be transferred digitally without any intermediaries, the number of users interested in reselling their content would be larger than the number of active sellers on sites like eBay.
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Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
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