Pick up a copy of Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, and you’ll see a pretty remarkable headline stripped across the top of page one: “Global Oil Glut Sends Prices Plunging.” U.S. oil prices have fallen ...

If you’re the only person selling water in the desert, you can pretty much charge whatever you like. If you’re selling sand, you’d better be selling it cheap. Like gravity is to physics, the law of ...

I hurt my back launching my sailboat last summer. Since it wasn’t getting better like it normally does, I decided to visit my back doctor. He was over an hour late for my appointment, and he was not ...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y (MarketWatch) -- Housing and health care are two examples of how the law of supply and demand does not always work the way the textbooks say it should. Here's how this law is ...

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A demand and supply analysis is a vital tool used in economics to inform business decisions. When it is done accurately after considering factors such as trends and seasons, a supply and demand ...

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