Where
an economy is smaller in size, economies of scale in production or distribution reduce, by definition, the number of firms necessary to supply any given level of demand.
Not exact matches
Today, we
're interested
in one of the most overlooked parts of American
economy: the
small - to - medium
sized business, or SMB.
-- The Young Global Leaders Award for Circular
Economy SME, which recognizes
small - to medium -
sized enterprises with $ 10 million to $ 100 million
in turnover,
was awarded to Apto Solutions, a provider of IT asset disposition services.
The
size of the Italian
economy is still
smaller than what it
was in 2008, and
is roughly where it
was in the early 2000s.
«Relative to the
size of your average agency
in D.C., it
's pretty
small, but it represents this Washington insider
economy.
Meanwhile those that could create the jobs elsewhere — such as the millions of
small and medium -
sized businesses that
are the backbone of European
economies — often struggle to access credit or
are caught up
in red tape and regulation.
Unlike export - based
economies such as Canada or Germany, the U.S. export sector
is much too
small in relation to the
size of the
economy to single handedly carry the burden for growth.
The
size of the federal government relative to the
size of the
economy is substantially
smaller than
in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our customers
are small and medium
sized public and private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the
economies of scale
in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.
A situation where large amounts of money
are being deposited
in Central Bank of Nigeria without making any positive impact on our
economy should
be reviewed and such money should
be used to support our
Small and Medium -
sized Enterprises (SME) to the fullest.
Our priorities
are the priorities of the people of Wales: more nurses so they have the time to care for our loved ones,
smaller class
sizes so teachers have the time to properly teach our children, and an Opportunity
Economy that helps businesses and supports people so they can own their get on
in life.»
For students to learn and to compete
in the global
economy, schools must
be well - equipped and they must
be able to accommodate
smaller class
sizes.
The unit can
be used to boost performance of any
size engine, but
in the interest of
economy, its maker sees the electric supercharger as enabling auto manufacturers to install
smaller engines
in vehicles without compromising the vehicle's peak performance.
In March, DOT and the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosted a first of its kind two - day summit bringing together private and public sector businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and trade associations to discuss and address challenges facing small businesses is this eco
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosted a first of its kind two - day summit bringing together private and public sector businesses of all
sizes, government agencies, and trade associations to discuss and address challenges facing
small businesses is this eco
small businesses
is this
economy.
After all, many of the Americans who
are currently driving mid - or full -
size SUVS that get 14 or 15 or 16 mpg will
be happy to downsize to a
smaller but still roomy and versatile SUV like the Tiguan that will take them well into the 20s
in terms of fuel
economy on the highway but will still give them the features that attracted them to SUVs
in the first place: a high seating position, all - wheel - drive traction, and cargo versatility.
With one of the highest fuel
economies in its class, as well as impeccable style, the 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
is a welcome addition the
smaller size SUV family.
Our goal
is to develop a next - generation hybrid drive system
smaller in size and lighter
in weight, offering improved overall fuel
economy, better acceleration, and longer all - electric range — all while maintaining a short charging time.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
In my
small unique book «The
small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you
are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance
in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in the long run
is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a
small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity
is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results
in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in overtrading, which
in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in turn results
in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position
sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital
in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market /
economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
With TOT, of course, the obvious answer to this Cash
is frequent execution of
small / medium
sized acquisitions across Europe (similar to what DCC (DCC: LN) has done for years
in its Energy business)-- considering the nature / scope of potential business acquisitions, I think there
's a marvelous opportunity here to hoover up cos and double their operating margins v quickly through cost elimination and
economies of scale.
Although the UK
is relatively
small in size, its
economy is one of the largest
in the world.
I
am only guessing now you and I agree, given its present gigantic scale, that the endlessly expanding global
economy in a finite world with make - up and relatively
small size of Earth, will eventually reach a point
in history when this leviathan - like, manmade
economy produces some kind of unimaginable colossal wreckage.
Put another way, not seeing that the colossal
size of the multi-trillion dollar global
economy is soon to become unsustainable
in the relatively
small, bounded world we inhabit
is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to
be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever,
is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base,
is a misconception, I suppose.
So no lawyer, whether they
're a solo practitioner
in a family law practice
in a medium
size or
small city
in the United States or somebody who does the most sophisticated mergers and acquisitions around the globe, no lawyer should think that their practices
are unaffected by these large scale forces that
are reshaping the entire
economy and they ought to
be looking for ways that they can use these forces or participate
in these broader trends to make their practices more effective, to make the service they provide their clients better, and to make their own lives better.
The
small size of the population of Northern Australia, and its wide dispersal outside the handful of major centres, exacerbated by the lack of participation by much of the Aboriginal community
in the
economy,
is perhaps the key impediment to
be overcome.
CB's purpose
is, among other things, to ensure that
small and medium -
sized enterprises have an equitable opportunity to participate
in the Canadian
economy, and to provide consumers with competitive prices and product choices.
«1.1 The purpose of this Act
is to maintain and encourage competition
in Canada
in order to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian
economy,
in order to expand opportunities for Canadian participation
in world markets while at the same time recognizing the role of foreign competition
in Canada,
in order to ensure that
small and medium -
sized enterprises have an equitable opportunity to participate
in the Canadian
economy and
in order to provide consumers with competitive prices and product choices.»