Sentences with phrase «government set the price»

They get by because the whole family finds jobs off the farm and / or massive subsidies from the government setting prices and subsidizing crop insurance.
Some European countries have a carbon tax where the government sets a price for each tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.
Suppose that the government set the price of carbon at a sufficiently high and increasing level that it would guarantee that one or more renewable technology was cost competitive with coal.
We are not surprised when Venezuela has food shortages resulting from the government setting prices — we should also not be surprised when central banks setting interest rates lower than they would be in a free market results in a $ 230 trillion global debt bubble.»

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Nova Scotia opted for cap and trade in November 2016 as part of the federal government's push to get the provinces to set a price on carbon.
Novartis has also set out to change how the biopharma industry and governments approach drug pricing and development.
Treasury prices rise, pushing yields lower, on Monday after solid appetite for two batches of government debt auctions see strong bidding, ahead of what's set to be a deluge of sales of government debt in 2018.
In Canada, the federal government has said every province must set a price on carbon.
The Federal Reserve is independent from politics and the national government but is subject to oversight by Congress, which has set our dual mandate to promote maximum sustainable employment and price stability.
Exelon prefers a different marketplace, one in which the government can be summoned to set prices to its advantage.
the initial sale of U.S. debt obligations and new issues, offered and purchased directly from the U.S. government at a face value set at auction; these securities are auctioned in a single - priced, Dutch auction; auctions are held with the following frequencies: Treasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November.
The Japanese government has set a target price of ¥ 2.2 million — around US $ 18,000 — for fuel - cell vehicles by 2025.
The thing is that Bitcoin price is not set by a person, community, company or government.
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The set prices have since been lowered by the government, and Tesla's low - cost solar cells were a big draw at the technology exhibition.
Yet by setting yields so low and bond prices so high, markets are sending a clear signal that they want more, not less, government debt.
He explains that when a government body in this case the CBN steps in and sets price at levels where they would not ordinarily go by themselves, they are repressing the price of interest rate, inflating the price of risk assets.
If something is too big to fail, government should take it under administration, paying some minimal price to the current owners, firing all the executives without severance packages (set laws so that they have rights as in bankruptcy), stabilize and bail out the firm, and sell it on open market.
The consequent improved irrigation reduced calves» death rate 75 %, increased milk production 50-fold, and allowed Nestle to pay higher prices to farmers than those set by the government.
Andy Nasr, portfolio manager at Middlefield Capital Corp., said cable providers still set pricing, which means they have the power to make up the difference if the government does change the rules.
Either way — either set by the government or the open market — a price on carbon is established.
As long as the government is not heavily involved in setting prices or in producing goods and services from a monopoly position, we might reasonably say the country has a free market.
It was also found that any effort on the part of the government to set prices or otherwise control market operations was an impediment to the efficient functioning of the market.
China rightly decided some years ago that prices should be set by the market rather than the government.
just The Facts - Minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland On Monday, the Scottish government confirmed it will set a minimum price of GBP0.50 (US$ 0.80) per unit of alcohol.
Mr Sims also revealed the ACCC is set to publish an explosive report on the eve of the banking royal commission, after shifting through thousands of internal documents to examine the banks» home loan pricing and whether they have passed the government's $ 6.2 billion bank tax on to customers.
An open market, that is, freed from monopoly domination and unnecessary elements of government regulation, a market system open to all, a market where prices are set through the marketplace negotiation between producers and consumers — a relationship in which neither is the price setter.
Finally, the Government is also fulfilling its election commitment made by the then Leader of the Opposition on the 11th July last year to set up a dedicated website that gives consumers a snapshot of local grocery prices.
The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced - price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.
Increasing production may help push prices down, while yesterday's price hike in China - where prices are set by the government rather than the market - may also help slow the rise.
Last week the government announced it is setting the minimum price per unit of alcohol at 45p.
The government was today accused of pricing people off the railways after it emerged train fares are set to rise by as much as 14 per cent.
Hon. Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah told Accra - based Citi FM,: «We don't set prices, we can only rely on the information provided us by government.
The gap between the contract price the government pays importers and the lower sale price set by the National Petroleum Authority left the importers short as the currency fell.
He said the decision in March 2012 by the Coalition Government to set a minimum price of 40p on a unit of alcohol to reduce consumption was a reverse of the principle behind traditional price fixing, which had been to protect consumers from sharp rises and guarantee the availability of necessities like beer.
Economists are also sounding the alarm, cautioning in a series of articles set to be published in Human Ecology that government policies that have forced these farmers to abandon traditional agriculture practices will leave them vulnerable to future fluctuations in rubber prices.
Under Aldy's scheme, as in many states, emitters may buy permits from the government at a set price.
A government in control of a single - payer health care system can exert monopoly power against a manufacturer to drive prices down, but the fragmented set of insurers and health plans in the United States can't do the same.
Government - enforced price ceilings set below the market - clearing price and government - enforced price floors set above the market - clearing price distort price signals and incentives to producers and Government - enforced price ceilings set below the market - clearing price and government - enforced price floors set above the market - clearing price distort price signals and incentives to producers and government - enforced price floors set above the market - clearing price distort price signals and incentives to producers and consumers.
What entrepreneur would enter an industry whose total customer base is confined to a few thousand families in a single U.S. city and which has a rigid price control set at half the spending level of a government protected monopoly operating in that same city?
You understand that dealers set their own prices, all prices and specifications are subject to change without notice, and prices may not include additional fees such as government fees and taxes, title and registration fees, finance charges, dealer document preparation fees, processing fees, and emission testing and compliance charges.
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However, the ripple effect of the 2012 government suit against Apple and other publishers means that nowadays, publishers set eBook prices, rather than Apple and Amazon — which changes the game.
If you want to openly conspire to set prices in order to protect your market and limit competition at the expense of the consumer you will only be able to get away with doing so for two years, plus however long it takes the government to drag you into court, prove anything, and penalize you with a slap - on - the - wrist settlement in which you ultimately offer consumers a small price break they will almost certainly never take you up on for products they probably don't want to buy anyway.
The newly proposed brief from the government calls for Apple to be barred from setting discount pricing with those publishers for five years, rather than the two years that the ruling currently considers.
Briefly, the government's position is this: In early 2010, Apple colluded with the publishers to set prices for all e-books sold through iTunes for the iPad, which was still in development.
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* A set of theoretical securities with «artificially constant» maturity, all priced at par, is constructed daily by the U.S. Treasury based on the rates of existing, marketable securities issued by the U.S. government.
The students of history among you will remember that at various points in time it has been illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold, and that on occasion a fixed price has been set when the U.S. government has called it in.
the initial sale of U.S. debt obligations and new issues, offered and purchased directly from the U.S. government at a face value set at auction; these securities are auctioned in a single - priced, Dutch auction; auctions are held with the following frequencies: Treasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November.
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