Firms in this business are also insulated from cheaper competitors because buildings' owners, who ultimately pay for their products, are several steps removed from the process of buying them.

If Japan steps away from defending the yen and thus from buying American bonds, the full weight of the current budget deficits will be felt in us markets for the first time.

The theories of consumer decision-making process presuppose that a consumer's decision to purchase process involves steps by which the buyer passes in buying a commodity.