Farmers have to wait for an increase in demand, or decrease in supply, to see their prices increase.
Second, the supply of marijuana is upward sloping at least in the short run, implying that temporary shortages caused by a reduction in supply or an increase in demand will impact market price.
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Suppose there was a decline in the demand for gold or perhaps a large increase in its supply.
An increase in copper demand places pressure on the supply side, which continues to experience shortfalls in mine output versus forecasts.
We're considering how and when this can best be used to bring about any necessary increase in supply or reduction in demand.
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The likeliest scenario is that a gradual increase in supply and a slight mellowing of demand will eventually bring some relief.
According to Jonathan Banks, executive automotive analyst with the NADA Used Car Guide, used-vehicle prices will remain largely at their lofty levels because of looser lending standards, recovery in the housing and construction markets, a gradual decrease in unemployment levels, an increase in supply from booming new-car sales and pent-up consumer demand.
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Most economists agree that this vast increase in inequality has been caused by increasing demand for college-educated workers amid a slowdown in supply.
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Going back to the simple Law of Supply and Demand, our only solution is to increase the supply of clean water available in these communities.
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When supply is tight, a small increase in demand can have a disproportionately large effect on price.
India's large population means that even a small increase in coffee consumption by individuals can affect global supply and demand for the commodity.
Meanwhile, shale gas production will increase elsewhere in the world, damping demand for U.S. supply.
And as basic economic theory tells us, in any given system, when you increase supply without boosting demand, the result is that prices fall.
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According to Sam Walsh, the board is likely to approve the proposal, barring a significant change in the supply-demand situation by then or a major increase in production costs.
This underlines the fact that oil prices have been driven higher largely by an increase in global demand, especially in China and America, rather than by a supply shock, as happened in the past.
To modern Austrians an increase in the supply of money is inflation no matter the corresponding increase in the demand for money.
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At the same time, rich-world firms have invested heavily in new technology, raising demand for skilled workers faster than schools could increase supply.
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In the current environment, increasing the supply of workers does nothing to increase the demand for workers, so it just means more unemployed workers.
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The scheme will see 10.2km of new water pipe laid to increase supply and meet the demand from the new Southmead Hospital and housing developments in north Bristol.
Instead, the oil inflation of 2011 was widely believed to reflect a long-term structural increase in demand from China and other developing economies running into the inexorable limit of a global oil supply that is at or near its geological peak.
The increase in the demand for paper currency and gold not only had a quantity effect on the money supply but it also put upward pressure on the price of gold, which meant that dollar prices of all goods and services had to fall for the relative price of gold to rise.
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Ongoing supply disruptions, as well as the fragile state of global economy, call for a prompt increase in supply on a competitive basis that will allow refiners to boost throughputs and meet rising seasonal demand.
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So the family holds off on selling right now, adding to the decrease in inventory and ultimately an increase in prices that has less to do with robust buyer demand and more to do with a markedly tiny supply pool.
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With supply shrinking, the modest increase in new inflows to the asset class had an outsized impact on demand.
In fact, valuations are very attractive and are expected to increase as the economy improves, while demand catches up with supply.
Six more years of Chavez could potentially push production even lower, which, in the context of a growing global, and specifically urban, population, means demand for oil should increase as supply is sliding.
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The market is pegging 30-year inflation at a slightly higher 2.0 percent rate, which is the spread between long-term 30-year Treasury nominal bonds and 30-year TIPS. Federal Reserve policy to increase the money supply has not led to inflation during this recovery because the demand for money has been lower than in other recoveries when inflation did occur.
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