It strikes me that the world is suffering from an over-supply of many commodities against a background of lower demand.
As if rising to the challenge, Mr. Ramos soon began painting photorealistic pictures juxtaposing Playmate-like nudes and brand-name commodities against blank or nearly blank backgrounds.
Shrinking grain and soyabean stocks also boosted prices.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Economic forecasts Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets The Economist all-items index Reprints Related items Commodities: Against the grainJun 10th 2004 The Economist commodity price indexJun 10th 2004.
Regular analytical reviews of prices offered by suppliers against commodity prices – and against costs of processing and production – should indicate when prices are too low and the product is likely to contain substitutes.
Some see it primarily as a commodity traded against other commodities, others as a promise, an IOU, and still others as a government edict, or a kind of ration coupon.
The new subsidy, called shallow-loss protection, would act as a free insurance policy to cover commodity farmers against small drops in revenue.
Yellow grease is a commodity, up against Brazilian soy oil and Southeast Asian palm oil, cocoa butter, Borneo tallow, meadow-foam oil and beeswax.
Marx aimed his critique of commodity fetishism against bourgeois social scientists who simply describe the capitalist economy but, in so doing, simultaneously misdescribe it and prescribe a false social vision.
The constitutional amendment, placed on the ballot by state lawmakers, pits industrial agriculture and major commodity groups against the state's family farmers and state and national animal protection, environmental, religious and good government groups.
