If we really want to see the kind of wide consumer behavior change that we're all talking about as environmentalists and food people, maybe we just need to ditch the term consumer and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

Crisis equals opportunity.

So whenever you have a discussion on the things that may or may not drive inflation it's important to weight them by these weightings that the CPI gives them to actually figure out what the actual impact on how we measure inflation really will be.

Many consumers rose up against the consumption tax.

Increasingly, consumers are looking at the culture of the company,

We see that play itself out with empathy and respect.

They're not.

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Our customers don't like to think of their kids as being sad.

And I'm going to come back to housing.

If they're in a company their position and title, their age, their sex, their role.

You know, the culture of learning is so much about passive consumption.

and say, Where does your stuff come from? They say, Suppliers.

And where does it go?

We've mentioned the health, but it needs consumers to buy into it.

The third of the four laws of post crisis consumerism is about durable living.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as consumers. OK?

What's everybody's biggest fear?

One is that Frito Lay figured out this liquidity thing with their consumer.

He consumes an enormous amount of liquor.

But then you lose control of it.

Because this has also been a dramatic time of transformation.

Have a stick? Well why not have a carrot?

Now we're also in the era, today, of quantified self.

And this crash would have been about a 450.

So there are, of course, two different possibilities.

What is the objective?

Marketing reduces things. Marketing simplifies.

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Taxes?

And the one that people report whenever they say the CPl went up 2 , they are actually referring to the CPl U.

Japan consumes a lot of paper.

Right now today, the savings rate is about 4 .

Like TED, I believe in people.

Consumption is vital for the monetary system because if consumers didn't exist, there wouldn't be any sellers.

I liked paying. Oh, spare me.

I can actually personalize the experience now.

American consumer group identifies RealPlayer as 'badware'.

Consumers are different than citizens.

Then it should be plainly legal for Russell to make a remix,

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So, when we look at this and we step back, what I believe is that the crisis that exists today is definitely real.

Now which addiction is greater?

Although they should be close to each other if they really are indices for measuring the general level of prices.

The consumer society is what you need for the Industrial Revolution to have a point.