There is a big market for coffee.

All market players know that EU governments will not let big banks fail.

Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a fortune from exploiting this rather rigged market.

We need to, for example, embrace the big data, the knowledge that is there from market leaders who understand what it means to use and leverage big data.

Such government insured underwriting distorts the market, giving big banks a competitive advantage, not necessarily because they are more efficient, but because they are too big to fail.

By contrast, sophisticated investors, such as big stock market players, are unlikely to fall prey to this trap.

The impetus for a big subprime market came from within the private sector innovation by giant mortgage lenders like Countrywide, Ameriquest, and many others, backed by the big investment banks.

But the gross flow of capital is from emerging market to emerging market, through big banks now implicitly backed by the state in both the US and Europe.

In both cases, it has brought consolidation, leaving fewer players with increased market power and too big to fail status.

The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.

NEW HAVEN People frequently ask me, as someone who has written on market speculation, where the next big speculative bubble is likely to be.

Big companies. Big companies.

Meanwhile, in the eurozone, Italy and Spain are now at risk of losing market access, with financial pressures now mounting on France, too. But Italy and Spain are both too big to fail and too big to be bailed out.

The updated adage for the recent bull market is one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again, so far at least.

Big banks, not small banks, are the major players in the market for short term debt, which makes their bonds riskier than small banks bonds.

Big Money Merges with Big Brother

Indeed, one of the big puzzles of the US stock market recently has been low price volatility since around 2004, amid the most volatile earnings growth ever seen.

One hears this argument for many modern industries, from big food to big pharma to big finance.

Being too big to fail simply means being too big.

NEW HAVEN People frequently ask me, as someone who has written on market speculation, where the next big speculative bubble is likely to be. Will it be in housing again?

The limited number of farmers that we have have been pushed out of their farming practices as a result of open market policy and bringing the big competitions, etc., etc.

Emerging market policymakers in big countries such as Brazil, China, and Turkey routinely attack the US and its monetary policy as a source of inflation, social tension, and political instability.

As we have seen in recent days, it will take a big change in economic policy and very radical, coordinated action among all advanced and emerging market economies to avoid disaster.

Big mistake.

Big Pearls

Do you go into your board and say, Look, I've got a fantastic idea for an embryonic product in a marginal market, with consumers we've never dealt with before, and I'm not sure it's going to have a big payoff, but it could be really, really big in the future?

Indeed, with the ability to make reliable predictions, we can put people and things into categories, whether market segments, disease risks, likely loan defaulters, potential purchasers, and so on. That s big data.

Stock market listed companies control a big share of almost every country s resources, so the free flow of corporate money into politics can have a profound impact on politicians preferences and choices.

The protesters rallied against what they consider big government, the dismantling of free market capitalism, abortion, and President Barack Obama's proposals on health care reform, taxation, and federal spending, among other issues.

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

Deah Barakat was a tall guy with a big smile and big ideas.

The same kind of unrest, in which the countryside is pitted against the town, with both sides demanding more rights, could undermine the political order in China and other big emerging market economies.

This means that whether a government is big or small is less important than how well it manages the PRI that is, whether the state is able to ensure high quality market order.

Bibi s Big Surprise

They're all big.

MA Pretty big.

It's too big.

It's very big.

Tom is big.

They're too big.

Big Brother Google?

Little Big Men

One Big Union

The Big Blink

Africa s Big Boom