They may thus, say the three economists, have been buying in order to exchange over-valued equity for real assets.
The Ethiopian government is issuing bonds and the population, all 85 million of us, are buying bonds in order to chip in to this huge Nile project.
The owner of a neighborhood grocery store in a middle-class neighborhood in Tehran said regular customers have openly told him they aren't buying milk in order to honor the boycott.
It might be financially valuable too, but just because some people happen to own art that is worth more today than what they paid for it does not mean that buying art in order to make money is somehow easy to pull off.
The state has also been buying up water rights in order to close down wells.
Moreover, buying new experimental drugs in order to grow the company may prove increasingly expensive.
One is market-making, in which banks accumulate large inventories of securities in order to facilitate buying and selling on the part of their clients.
In essence, Asian governments are buying American Treasury bonds in order to ensure that Americans can afford to keep spending money on Asian goods.
Thus someone needs to be buying lots of bonds in order to keep prices up and yields down, to stop this death spiral happening.
Suitable bureaucratic regulations could put an end to pernicious practices such as players selling their skills to the highest bidder, or managers buying the best players in order to make their businesses more successful.
Economists also said the data revived the possibility that the Bank might decide to increase its "quantitative easing" programme of buying up government debt in order to pump more cash into the economy, if the recovery falters.
If not, then it seems like he enterprise buying process might be well in order.
Essentially, they are goosing the stock market to make people feel wealthier in order to generate consumer buying.
The rumor had it that Cerberus was buying up American firearms manufacturers in order to run them into the ground.
Alternatively, if your space and budget permit, you could investigate buying in bulk from vendors in order to lower your per unit cost.
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By cutting transaction expenses, aggregating buying power, holding auctions in order to lower prices and exploiting the efficiencies of a single marketplace, the companies hope to save billions of dollars while simultaneously making a fortune on their stakes in the exchange itself, which is to be floated as a stand-alone firm next year.
The carmakers want to tailor each vehicle to a customer's order, so they are buying robots that can recognise different models and adapt accordingly.
Exchanges have spent the last year designing order-routing algorithms and buying faster networking gear and more bandwidth to control the chaos brought on by the changes.
It suggested cancelling the STOVL version of the F-35 and cutting the rest of its order by half, while buying cheaper F-16s and F-18s to keep numbers up.
The Fed itself has targeted the housing sector through monetary policy, buying residential mortgage-backed securities in order to push interest rates down and provide further relief to mortgage-holders.
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Mr Kuroda and Mr Iwata have said they are in favour of buying government debt with longer maturities in order to achieve the central bank's new inflation target of 2%.
"I want to gather information... over the bulk buying and trade in the Netherlands in order to inform Chinese authorities that they are getting batches of milk powder that do not conform to their regulations, " Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Sharon Dijksma said in a statement.
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After all, you do need a dip in order to play the dip-buying game!
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We might need to get some of that back-filling type action in order to get investors excited about buying again.
He added that the Department of Health was working with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs "on a range of projects to demonstrate precisely how the buying standards in hospitals can be used in order to deliver better nutrition for patients".
However, the lack of a chance to try before buying can be a huge downside to this mail order model.
Warren Buffett once put his finger on what's stupid about buying a stock and then putting in a stop-loss order.
"Having a postcode to order online has opened up a new way of buying for the people of Tristan Da Cunha, " he said.
For the last two years Reilly has tried to bring some order to the mess so that one day the buying can start anew.
In order to support its share price, Nike has been aggressively buying back stock.
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