"To say that credit markets should follow a caveat emptor model is to ignore the success of the consumer goods market--and the pain inflicted by dangerous credit products, " she writes in the newest edition of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
China has gotten rich over the last thirty years, in part, from exporting the small mass-market consumer goods that fill the shelves of my local Target before they make their way into my apartment.
As goes residential housing, so goes the rest of the higher-value consumer goods market, investors hope after all, those new homes need to be decorated.
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.
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.
The housing market remains week, appliance sales in consumer goods remain weak and broader concerns over the U.S. economy remain.
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
The good news is that the Chinese consumer wants what we are selling, provided we are able to get our goods to market.
Most succeeded by either dominating the local market (most of the richest people in China now lead domestically-focused consumer goods, real estate or Internet companies), or assembling PCs, phones, components, tablets, printers or other gadgets designed by overseas firms.
The crisis has hurt confidence and dented consumer demand in Europe, which is a key market for Japanese goods.
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According to a recent report by the African Development Bank, it is estimated that at least 310 million Africans (about 30% of the population) now fall within the middle-class bracket, which makes for an increased consumer market base demanding to be serviced with new goods, products and services.
However, the recent experience of Unilever, the world's largest consumer-goods firm, suggests that managing a big family of brands that differ from one market to another is horribly complicated.
Overall, the third quarter is expected to be marginally positive as demand for consumer electronics goods, including smartphones and tablets, remains strong and a stream of new products hit the market.
If CBS can convince advertisers that the older generation is an attractive market to target as well given higher disposable incomes and greater potential for purchasing consumer goods like iPads, smartphones and other popular items that younger generations might already own, then it could see a rebound in pricing trends.
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This kind of demand, especially in a place where counterfeit luxury goods are easy to come by, has led to the assumption that prospects for parts of the Chinese consumer market remain strong despite rapidly-slowing growth in the overall economy.
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