Foundations, with their government and private-sector partners, can base expectations on the realities of supply and demand for hiring, business activity and residential growth.

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Both supply and demand of small business loans dropped for the first time this year in April.

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Returning to the quote that kicked off this post, when an entrepreneur is able to identify an abundance of largely unknown supply and connect it with a steady stream of curiously hidden demand, new business can boom.

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By paying too much attention to the supply side of its business and too little attention to the demand side.

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In the case of interest rates, the determinative factors should be the supply of savings available to lend and the demand for money by people and business who want to borrow.

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Moreover, China demand for all of those commodities kept business flowing, and jobs growing throughout the agribusiness supply chain, according to government data.

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One of the few certainties in business, or economics, or life in general is that thought is in short supply and high demand (at least among those who have thought about it).

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