The fragmented swaths of developable land currently being speculated on by public agencies keep housing scarce and expensive.
He is not quite saying that Wall Street and our government are financing our trade deficit in order to keep jobs scarce and therefore wages low, just that this is the net result of policies and decisions.
But he kept himself scarce on Monday, staying away from reporters.
Resources are kept perpetually scarce, while the procedures for obtaining them (achieving "platinum status," for example) are kept infernally confusing.
"The temptations of self-sufficiency / are great," she writes, "but not great / enough": the pressure of maintaining patience, of creating for those she loves a zone of approachability and safety, makes her an altogether different kind of poet from Moore, who kept herself scarce.
The idea that "long-term geological events [that kept phosphorus scarce] drove the evolution of eukaryotes" has been floating around for some time, notes Julie Bartley, a geochemist at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton.
"Conventional business logic would tell you that in a community like TED you have to keep your commodity scarce and expensive to retain brand value," she said.
The main contradiction today is between the possibility of free, abundant goods and information; and a system of monopolies, banks and governments trying to keep things private, scarce and commercial.
More than 500,000 new medical articles are published every year and available time to keep updated is scarcer every day.
