Their willingness to buy Treasurys at crummy yields rather than stocks implies the economy will shrink next year rather than grow.

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If shoppers show a willingness to buy products, retailers will stock them.

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GDP, America remains dangerously reliant on foreigners' willingness to buy dollar assets.

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Is Japan willing to consider offsetting the codevelopment arrangement on the FS-X with a substantial off-the-shelf defense purchase to demonstrate Japanese willingness to buy American when it is sensible to do so?

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Gold could keep rallying for a while, Lesh said, although he also anticipates a bout of profit taking at some point now that a highly anticipated FOMC meeting and European Central Bank willingness to buy bonds have both occurred.

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Consumer sentiment as measured by GfK, a research company, shows that citizens feel well off and have a willingness to buy, but at the same time are fearful that the German economy will be sucked into the euro-zone crisis.

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Bank balance sheets have swollen further as a consequence of the sharp reduction in investor willingness to buy securitized credits, which has forced banks to retain a substantially higher share of previously committed and new loans in their own portfolios.

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How much additional revenue would you be able to generate if you could increase the willingness of consumers to buy your products by say, 10 percent?

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All of this depends on the willingness of consumer-goods companies to buy advertising slots, however.

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One of the main factors behind the surge in shares has been a willingness among ordinary people, such as students and pensioners, to buy shares.

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