The prices of goods and services should be determined by the actual forces of supply and demand in their market.
Back to that Economics 101 course: I learned that there is a connection between the supply and demand for dollars in the foreign exchange market and the demand and supply respectively for foreign goods and services.
The problem we suffer from is supply and demand in the jobs market.
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The supply and demand relationship in each market determines how much of the inflation can be priced into rental rates.
The laudable goal of widespread organ donation cannot be achieved by forbidding the law of supply and demand from operating in this market.
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In general, the Republican proposal would see the value of the dollar swinging randomly based on global patterns of supply and demand in a volatile commodity market that tends to follow its own mysterious logic.
The purity of the supply and demand equation in the muni market and its resulting reflection on interest rate levels is where the wheat will be separated from the chaff and what investors need to embrace as their new bellwether.
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Worldwide, companies like Hunter Douglas (manufacturer of custom-made window fashions in North America) and Vitamix (world leader in high-performance blending equipment) are finding out that the flexibility of our solutions can help improve productivity and profitability in a market where both supply and demand is changing.
With low supply and high demand, prices in an unregulated market would rise.
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Like many of his brethren, Bernanke confuses price changes that result from supply-and-demand factors in a free market with those that result from debasing the currency.
Even if you hold everything fixed, there will be workers elsewhere in the world who at given the current supply and demand for labor in the U.S., and the resulting market wages, will find it optimal to move here and be hired.
In many ways, finance is like any other market, matching demand and supply in this case of loanable or investable funds.
And the prices at which they can sell are determined by the supply and demand for their wares out there in the market.
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By March, the supply-demand picture has reversed and the market is awash in bonds.
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The demand-supply mismatch and increasing competition in the memory market has further put downward pressure on both DRAM and NAND memory product prices.
By making its own polysilicon and building its own power plants, it hopes to protect itself from the vagaries of supply in an immature market and also boost demand for its products.
Mr. Amodeo said the urinals could be in high demand, because their design is unique and there isn't a large supply in the secondhand market.
By supplying algorithms to balance all the variables of a supply chain, such as product prices, stock levels and customer demand, they are following in the footsteps of i2, the market leader in supply-chain management.
But if supply and demand are in close balance (as they were in the oil market), even very small changes in either component can lead to large price shifts.
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With additional capacity kicking in over the next 4-5 years, we may eventually see supply outpacing demand, which would result in oversupply and a consequent decline in spot market prices.
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In a market economy, prices must be discovered by supply and demand.
One answer is that it is just the market at work, a market for top executives in which demand is high and supply limited.
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In any market that interests him, he identifies the buyers and sellers, estimates how much they are likely to demand and supply, and then looks at whether his findings are already reflected in the market price.
The Fed would use the discount rate rather than the federal funds market to supply or withdraw credit in response to any imbalance between supply and demand for it.
Brent crude's position as the accepted benchmark for pricing most of the world's oil is coming under fire, as experts in the oil market say the blend doesn't reflect true global supply and demand.
Now, we just need to link this supply with the demand, and make it easier for U.S. firms to operate in the dynamic African market.
But prices have surged because of an acute shortgage of supply and strong demand from all types of purchasers, not just from those in the higher value end of the market or in the finance, media and technology sectors.
In a well-functioning market, the price of property should bring demand and supply into equilibrium.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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There is such a unique market opportunity created by the stark imbalance between supply and demand that social entrepreneurs have enormous incentive to invest in clean water.
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