Well on a simplistic level, our choices would seem to be lowering our standard of living, or being more productive, particularly in tradable goods production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » US Manufacturing and the Trade Deficit] Reference

The more rigid a country 's markets in tradable products and services and the more inflexible its labor market, the slower will be the pace of adjustment to the trade deficit.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Euro-Zone Currency War, Just Tough Choices on Reform] Reference

Under a system known as tradable rights, a company acquires from the government, either by purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference

Rights are often tradable, meaning investors can sell them, often for a gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overseas Offerings Cut Into U.S. Returns] Reference

Rather, it shows demand for a tradable proxy for Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forex Is Back, But Different] Reference

Was a degree in sociology just not a tradable commodity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Guy B. Johnson, July 22, 1990. Interview A-0345. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

The cheapest way to achieve the goal would be tradable permits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Smith Turns Green] Reference

ROBERTS: What you have to retrain them for is non-tradable service jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004] Reference

Open space and river breezes are priceless treasures rather than tradable assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Waterfront: Pier 40 and the Limits of Commercial Development] Reference

The B-1 shares were set to convert to freely tradable Class A shares at year's end.    From Wordnik.com.  [J.P. Morgan, BofA Lead Rally] Reference

Petrobras overpaying for the reserves may undermine the value of its tradable shares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil, Petrobras Reach $42.5 Billion Oil Deal] Reference

A second policy response to climate change is a system of tradable pollution permits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economics of climate change] Reference

As we have seen, one alternative to a pollution tax is a system of tradable pollution permits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policy responses to climate change] Reference

But only in the last couple of decades has risk, by design, become a globally tradable product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Then They All Fall Down] Reference

Market-based instruments include pollution taxes, tradable pollution permits and product labeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polluter pays principle] Reference

Examples of market-based policy tools include pollution taxes and transferable, or tradable, permits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policy responses to climate change] Reference

It is too early to judge whether tradable green certificates, connected to a quota system, are viable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) licenses pollutors by giving them tradable emissions credits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental Group Uses Google Grants to Target Iowa Voters] Reference

What liquidity means for that individual investor is that he's holding an asset that is easily tradable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009] Reference

So what's unusual about this market is that two-thirds of the shares are non-tradable, held by the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2009] Reference

To those big name tech shares that are very easily tradable, the big Microsofts, the big technology names.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2001] Reference

Cap-and-trade systems using tradable permits are sometimes an alternative to environmental tax restructuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Restructuring taxes to create an honest market] Reference

This is true whether the economic product involved is a natural resource, a "non-commodity tradable" or a service.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONTENTS] Reference

For example, the U.S. Clean Air Act reauthorization contains a tradable permit system for controlling air pollution.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 4] Reference

Reducing global warming pollution - by requiring reductions in emissions and establishing a tradable permit system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009: Climate Policy Gets Real] Reference

A system of tradable permits has been incorporated into negotiations among nations on global climate change policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policy responses to climate change] Reference

On the other hand widespread poverty depresses markets and limits the range and volume of tradable goods and services.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC STATE OF NORTHERN PROVINCE] Reference

We were a low or modest asset investment strategy, assuming we could create a market and tradable market for broadband.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2002] Reference

The polluter pay principle is applied universally, expressed through eco-taxes, tradable permits, standards and subsidies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Transition~ Narratives] Reference

Bringing down greenhouse gas emissions with a "cap and trade" system of tradable emissions allowances seemed like a good idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Change Plan B] Reference

To demonstrate the economic impacts of a tradable carbon permit system, we can use the analytical concept of marginal net benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policy responses to climate change] Reference

Like oil, natural gas resources are unevenly distributed across the world, but unlike oil, gas is not easily transportable or tradable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Markets that have treated water solely as a private good and a tradable commodity can have adverse social and environmental consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being] Reference

In the future, says McKee, "emerging markets with outdated development models that are overly dependent on production and exports of tradable goods will suffer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tight-Fisted Is Back In Style] Reference

She cosponsored the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007, which would cut carbon emissions by 30 percent from 2000 to 2050 with a system of "tradable allowances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary Of State Nominee] Reference

At the height of the boom last year, China's tradable market cap was equal to around 36 percent of GDP, compared with 109 percent in Japan and 142 percent in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Following The Herd In China] Reference