Since the seventies, the supply of healthy infants available through domestic adoption has contracted sharply.
Not only is inflation quiescent and the dollar strong, which should keep foreign investors interested in United States bonds, but supply is contracting with the decline in the Federal deficit.
The bill rate had dropped sharply earlier this week on speculation that the supply of outstanding bills would contract next week if Congress did not approve legislation raising or extending the Federal debt ceiling.
Over 1,000 people contracted the disease and fatalities totalled 131, including the very man responsible for the city's water supply, Liam Kirk of Baker Crescent.
Gas consumption on the other hand, is likely to increase slightly as a proportion of total energy demand, with new supplies contracted from the USSR, Algeria, Norway and the Netherlands.
The Main Street bottom line is this: The agencies' bonds may stop being regarded as an almost perfect equivalent to ultrasafe Treasury bonds at a time when the supply of real McCoy Treasuries is contracting sharply.
The drop in issuance of new debt is not limited to the government market; supply has also contracted in the corporate, municipal and mortgage markets.
We have seen earlier that the banks were able to substitute other liquid assets (money at call, commercial bills) as the supply of Treasury bills contracted.
In the mid-200s, the supply of specie contracted sharply.
The supply of family foster care providers had contracted radically as the compensation levels retracted from inflation from 1998.
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