Consumer Goods
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had...
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs...
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Given that the Chinese central bank is printing yuan in order to keep it devalued to other foreign currencies, especially relative to the dollar, a question that may have jumped into your brain is, is...
Korea′s consumer prices grew at the slowest pace in four months in August. Statistics Korea says... the index rose one-point-4 percent last month from a year ago,... slowing from July′s 1-point-6...
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Korea′s consumer prices grew at the slowest pace in four months in August. Statistics Korea says... the index rose one-point-4 percent last month from a year ago,... slowing from July′s 1-point-6...
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Helped by the government′s stimulus measures, domestic consumption is showing strong signs of rebounding. Our Kim Ji-yeon details how consumer confidence is recovering. The economy is finally showing...
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In these days of globalization the world is moving closer together. But only in the minds of people. Because distances do not shrink. Today we just cover them faster. It is exactly in this field that...
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ECONOMIC SECTOR The biotechnology and biomedicine sector represents one of the basic driving forces of economic and social progress, with contributions as important as biomedical research, biofuels,...
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(car engine racing, tires squealing) MILTON FRIEDMAN: The 1960s Corvair, condemned by Ralph Nader as unsafe at any speed. Since Nader's attack, it is being increasingly accepted that we need...
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