In 1922 Essex introduced the first affordable enclosed automobile (sedan), which shifted the auto industry away from open vehicles to meet consumer demand for enclosed automobiles.

Demand for consumer products typically follows an S curve.

First, the only source of recessions, stagnation, and other aggregate demand failures was inadequate consumer demand.

However, rising demand in consumer countries was a further complicating factor.

The largest component of US aggregate demand the consumer is on ice.

In terms of energy use, peak demand describes a period of simultaneous, strong consumer demand or a period of highest demand in a billing period.

Falling consumer demand need not cause a recession, since other parts of aggregate demand may rise to counteract this effect.

The expansion of business travel has created a consumer demand for such products.

Consumer demand has been the main factor responsible for lower prices in retailing.

Business and consumer confidence are also likely to take a hit, further undermining demand.

It wasn t laws that created online banking it was changed expectations and consumer demand.

That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

Instead, the release of pent up consumer demand was literally half that of previous business cycles.

As with most things in Asia nowadays, China holds the key to supplying Asia s missing consumer demand.

Post crisis sluggishness in US aggregate demand especially consumer demand is likely to persist, denying Chinese exporters the support they need from their largest foreign market.

This is the kind of frugally engineered product that can create enormous new consumer demand in emerging markets.

Based on consumer demand, he decided that building a small car would be the most practical new venture.

As global oil demand increases, there is not enough capacity to meet it a cycle that will continue until demand collapses.

Demand for and supply of opiates used to meet medical and scientific needs

Regional programmes are generally understaffed to meet a growing demand for their services.

Meanwhile, cuts in social and welfare spending are only making things worse, as employment and consumer demand fall further.

But what we have seen since 2007 is an overshooting of the contraction in consumer demand and domestic investment.

First, services growth is beginning to tap a new source of labor income generation, the mainstay of consumer demand.

Energy hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.

Scholarships and state guaranteed loans are available, but are insufficient to meet growing demand.

Not this time. The record plunge in consumer demand during the Great Recession has been followed by persistently subpar consumption growth.

To escape the crisis, Germany used rapid export growth especially to meet voracious Chinese demand.

One of the first concepts to which an economics student is exposed in a basic macro course is pent up consumer demand.

The only way to meet growing demand was to use OPEC s spare capacity and commercial inventories.

We know how to build power systems, design modern cooking stoves, and meet energy demand efficiently.

A group of fan translators will often translate the game themselves to meet demand for titles.

Traditional consumer policy, which focuses on correcting market failures, needs to be supplemented by a modern consumer policy that looks to the future to influence the demand side of the market, leading it towards more sustainable behavior.

Indeed, more recently, the credit restrictions that were implemented at the end of 2010 have been loosened in order to stimulate consumer demand.

South Africa has about 60 billion tonnes of coal reserves, which is sufficient to meet this demand.

From the first quarter of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2 annual rate.

As demand falls, businesses will reduce production, leading to lower employment and incomes, which in turn will lead to further cuts in consumer spending.

Even countries ranked toward the bottom of global corruption indices for example, Russia and Nigeria boasted soaring middle class populations and rising consumer demand.

To meet expected demand over the next 20 years, global food supplies must increase by an estimated 50 .

At the same time, expanded access to credit has supported a building boom to meet vast untapped demand.

German multinationals like Siemens and Daimler are ratcheting up investment to meet both emerging market and domestic demand.

Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7 , compared to a 3.6 growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted. Never before has the American consumer been this weak for this long.

Weak demand especially the post crisis collapse in consumer spending growth is a far more likely culprit than China in explaining the recent hiring shortfall.

Over most of the postwar period, this post recession release of pent up consumer demand has been a powerful source of support for economic recovery.

Low long term interest rates have kept the region s debts manageable, while high consumer demand has helped bid up prices for the region s commodity exports.

It is also concerned that recovery and counselling services are insufficient to meet the increased demand for such services.