EXAMPLES UNITED STATES Although the United States lost its AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's, investors worldwide have kept buying United States Treasury securities, still regarding them as among the safest investments in the world.
Newly prosperous residents have kept buying motorcycles and cars, adding, say officials, 900 vehicles a day to the already overloaded streets.The government showed its disdain for the IT billionaires by allowing the withering of the "Bangalore Agenda Task Force".
Some companies may want to raise prices and increase profits, but economists said that increases would be restrained by competition, low-price imports and expectations that there would not be much pent-up demand from consumers who have kept buying through the economic slump.
Retail investors have been exiting junk mutual funds (so far this year removing $7.93 billion, or 6% of the funds' assets, according to AMG Data Services), but hedge funds have kept buying junk, more than offsetting the mutual fund outflow.
Richard Thomas, global communications coordinator for TRAFFIC, an international organization that monitors wildlife trade, said that substitutes already exist; yet consumers have kept buying rhino horn.
If Phishmaster hadn't kept buying me water, I probably would have died.
"People are taking money out of the stock market, and with interest rates so low, they have just kept buying".
Last year I found eight unopened jars of cocktail sauce in the back of my fridge; I had forgotten I had any and kept buying more.
Besides do-gooding, 81-year-old Buffett has kept busy recently buying up newspapers and trying to reassure shareholders that his recent prostate cancer diagnosis isn't slowing him down.
