law of supply & demand as a dynamic that is self-regulation?
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There is no such thing as LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- comparably to the LAW OF GRAVITATION (or Newton's Law) ... it is all being intercepted by governments and political parties.\n\nThese institutions are always thinking of their own "self-interest".
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Well, it won't run out completely, but it is projected that demand will outpace production within that time frame.  This is based on Hubbert's Curve and if you're interested, try researching Peak Oil.  Regardless, when demand outpaces consumption, expect the price of gasoline, and anything else associated with petroleum, to increase in price drastically.
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that demand drives supply and supply affects price
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when government subsudizes a certain sector, that reduces the cost of production of the good. that leads to increase in world supply and price eventually falls, assuming demand does not change.
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Its WISELY getting the most for the least.  Making use of limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants.  As my ECO 251 instructor put it--"getting oodles of utils"!
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Two principles that apply to every market are the supply and demand pricing dynamics and the product life cycle pricing dynamics.\n\nA project to demonstrate these principles that would be elegant is to choose two different markets and model the pricing in the market according to supply and demand and over time with respect to the product life cycle.\n\nMuch like a scientist investigating genetic eveolution, choose markets with relatively short product life cycles so that the time element is easily observed.\n\nFor example, the Apple ipod is a product that revolutionized the music industry by making downloading legal and cache.  The devices progressed from the first ipod, to the ipod mini to the ipod nano.  The backbone of the offering is iTunes, which changed the way we buy and listen to music.  Look at the pricing curves over time for the ipod models by looking at press releases and industry coverage of the ipod revolution.  You will see that the pressures of supply and demand drove the ipod pricing, while the product lifecycle drove the introduction of new models to keep the public buying and maintaining image and pricing.\n\nNext, look at the video game platform market.  In this market the product life cycle is very influential since new technology provides a more interesting user experience as the new models appear about every two years (product lifecycle).  The pricing of the platforms is below cost to attract gamers to buy the platform since the profit is derived from the game sales and royalties.\n\nTo go to a completely different market, look at hybrid cars.  The price of oil and fear of spiking oil prices, along with government incentives in tax credits and car-pool lane priviledges, drove demand of the flagship Toyota Prius into the stratosphere.  The cars are still difficult to find since the dealers are backlogged with orders from eager customers.  A bit of clever marketing and timing with the pressure on oil prices and the Global Warming crisis have continued to spur sales.  The more interesting story may be the Honda Civic hybrid that offers many of the same features as the prius, but hasn't enjoyed the attention from the press.  Look at the difference in the pricing as a result of the significant difference in demand.\n\nThat's a few ideas.  There are many more.  \n\nGood luck.\n\nj
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The answer is no, nobody can. However, by looking at the major drivers of supply and demand, one can come to an educated guess. One can also lock in prices in the future using the futures market. For example, one can purchase 25,000 lbs. of copper today for delivery at the end of December 2006 for approximately 263.5 cents per pound.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynes\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say's_Law\nThere is some info. here. Hope this Helps!
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supply vs demand, proxy reports, laws,climate, inflation, market consensus, sales, consumer awareness, marketing, past history, current events, law suits, etc...
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Indifference Curves\n\nThere are several economic concepts that I want you to understand before you end this course. Although this is not an economics course, I believe it is really important for anyone who is going to deal with commerce to understand these basic facts. In this course we will begin by talking about what are called "indifference curves". We will then move on to talk about preferences and prices. After we understand these characteristics of an individual consumer, we will move on to see how they combine to produce what is called "the demand curve". From there we will move to discuss the economics of supplying products and what is called "the supply curve". We will learn about changes in quantity of demand, changes in quantity of supply and the very different concepts of changes in demand and changes in supply.\n\nUsing Graphs\n\nThis work will, of course, involve us in using numbers since economics is about numbers, but many of the arguments can be understood by using graphs at the same time that we use numbers and that is where we will begin. The first graph we look at represents an individual indifference curve. The two axes of this graph represent two different commodities, goods or things that a consumer could have. One of them is Money In the Pocket, which we show along the y-axis. The other, just to be concrete, is Hamburgers In the Belly, which we show along the x-axis. A particular individual starts out with a certain amount of money in his pocket as shown at Point A, let’s say twenty dollars. This person is indifferent between having twenty dollars and no hamburgers in his belly and having eighteen dollars in his pocket and one hamburger in his belly. That other situation is shown as the point labeled "B".\n\nWhat does this mean? It means that if we offer to sell him a hamburger for a price less than two dollars, he will like this. We show such an alternative by the point labeled "C". If he moved from Point A to Point C, he would be keeping to the right, or above, his indifference curve, and this is generally taken to mean that he would prefer that situation. On the other hand, if we offer to sell him a hamburger for three dollars, we would be inviting him to move to the point labeled "D". This is to the left, or below, his indifference curve and presumably he would not prefer it.\n\nThe specific example I’ve given here is of a kind where motion is possible only in one direction. That is, the customer may increase the number of hamburgers in his belly by giving money to a retailer, but if the hamburgers were to be somehow removed from his belly, it’s unlikely that anyone would give him back the money.\n\nWe can learn more from looking at this curve. The line, for example from Point A to Point B, has a slope. This slope is determined by the amount of money that has to be paid for one hamburger, in this case we say one dollar. So the slope of this curve, if we view it in the normal sense, is one dollar per hamburger. This means that the indifference curve for some other products, for example a potato chip, would rise much more slowly, since no one is going to pay a dollar for an individual potato chip. On the other hand, the indifference curve for a lobster dinner would rise much more steeply because people would, presumably, be willing to pay quite a lot more for a lobster dinner.\n\nIn Figure 1, I have this with pocket money on the vertical axis and Hamburgers In the Belly on the horizontal axis so that the slope of the curve exactly corresponds to the price of hamburgers. Those of you who have studied calculus will realize that this is a downhill slope and its actual calculation produces a negative number. So to be strictly accurate, we have to say that the unit price of the goods represented on the horizontal axis is given by the negative of the slope of the curve. This is represented by the equation P = -D M/D G.\n\nStates\n\nTo come b
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markets do mainly though some foreign countries/cartels such as Venezuela/OPEC have a lot of say. Economics still out as if price too high people use less. Supply & demand
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High Supply, Low demand = Lower Price\n\nLow Supply and High demand = High Price\n\nSimple economics.  Our gas prices work this way too.. Very few refineries to refine gas, which causes lower supplies.
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Chris Anderson, from Wired magazine used the phrase, 'the long tail', to describe "an example of an entirely new economic model" based on the abundance of consumer choices and product availability.\n\nThe idea boils down to the fact that consumers will support many more products than previously known, albeit at smaller numbers. BUT, this continual stream of purchases can create a very significant number of sales.
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probably it is supply and demand
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An increase in supply means that the quantity Qs of the good has increased. Hence the supply curve moves down and to the right.  The price will decrease and the quantity demanded Qd will increase
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supply meets demand.\n\nProduces staple prices
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Well, actually it would depend on the rates of increase.  Theoretically, if demand and supply increase at matching rates, then the price should remain pretty stable.  This is assuming demand = 1 and supply = 1.  If demand increases at 1 and supply increases at 2, then the price might go down, for example.  (This also does not take into account marketing strategies and other variables!)