He noted that confidence in brands is also down, with only about 3 percent of survey respondents saying products always live up to their promises. Far fewer affluent American consumers in the top 5 percent of U.S. households have favorite brands in …

Interestingly, people who buy fakes of luxury brands are not always logo-loving middle classes, even the affluent class makes trips to shops selling duplicates. Whether it's the M-block market in Delhi's Greater Kailash … “Over 80 percent of the …

The nomination of Yellen and the transition at the Fed highlights the fundamental financial questions of our day: Are we in a period of financial stability, perhaps marked by anemic growth in affluent nations such as the United States and the euro zone …

Nor will they cease requests from increasingly affluent, urban and educated global consumers that wood does not come from native forests. Nor will it stop the … Working against these changes is unlikely to help grow or sustain the wood products industry.

“So many of the people who used to do it are out of business,” he said, adding that furniture restorers are becoming increasingly rare due in part to the availability of cheap “throwaway” products that don't warrant repair. Geyer said that inexpensive …

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The business case: wood high rises are economically and environmentally better than steel and glass for housing millions of newly affluent workers in the developing economies, including hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indian urban dwellers. This …

Excessive fees and interest rates on loans, lack of disclosure of products' terms and conditions, and deceptive debt-collection practices by banks and credit institutions contributed significantly to the financial crisis in the US and other developed …

They'll have little shops that they'll go in and sell their products. It could be something that they've made or some … Ed: The favela is surrounded by large buildings with affluent people living in them. What's going on? Amaro: What they would like …