Maher then lamented the expansion of technology to ordinary consumer goods, saying that his car window is stuck because the computer which controls it isn't working.

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When it comes to ordinary household goods, such as those carried by the likes of Home Depot, Tesco, Carrefour and Wal-Mart, the Chinese are extremely price sensitive.

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What your book illustrates so well is the difference between the kind of market that prevails in ordinary consumer goods such as automobiles, televisions or what-not and that prevailed in medicine until World War II, and the kind of market that now exists in the medical area.

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The cost of ordinary advertising of your goods or services is deductible.

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But in Japan many buyers of luxury goods have been ordinary middle-class office workers, some of whom save up for years.

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The 33% currency devaluation - although widely recommended by economists - has put huge strain on the treasury, and on many ordinary Malawians, as the price of imported goods has soared.

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For ordinary Russians, the spread of a functioning market in consumer goods and the end of the once-ubiquitous shop queue was the single biggest economic feat of the past turbulent decade.

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Ordinary Bitcoin users are not required to register as MSBs if they merely use the currency to purchase goods and services.

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