Before, buyers were begging to buy.

At the same time, buyers expect even lower prices down the line.

There is no way to know which it will be. Caveat emptor .

Buyers and sellers save time and resources that would otherwise have been expended searching for suitable counterparties.

The Russian government now spends more on new Russian made conventional weapons than do foreign purchasers.

Convinced that private ownership has become essential to smart living, buyers bid up home prices.

In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

In an ideal case, buyers offer significant order volumes and stability in relation to the quantity demanded and the prices paid (Humphrey 2004).

Fifth, the supply of eager purchasers and trend chasing investors comes to an end, producing a crash that resembles the collapse of a Ponzi scheme.

If willing buyers and willing sellers were trading claims happily, then, as long as they were professional investors, there was no legitimate reason to interfere in their markets.

One hint was that Russian buyers paid the big money, at the very moment that Russia s banking system was melting down.

They were not reacting to Dubai s financial trouble, but rather were joining the eager rush to own gold before its price rises even further.

If CDSs are concentrated in particular financial institutions, these institutions could be at risk more so than the primary purchasers of Greek debt themselves.

However, in cases where buyers and sellers are not equally dependent upon the relationship, the greater vulnerability of the more dependent party can be used as a source of coercive power by the less dependent party.

On the contrary, a crash makes the dream of ownership more affordable, which benefits first time buyers typically the young and less well off.

Companies and or individuals would buy insurance policies, pay a regular premium for them, and receive a benefit if some measure of the economy, such as GDP growth, dropped below a specified level.

Looking back on the past year, the 6 rise in the renminbi dollar exchange rate might understate the increase in the relative cost of Chinese goods to American buyers because of differences in domestic inflation rates.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

In capital markets, the information asymmetry between buyers and sellers of securities is even more extreme, making it hugely tempting for banks to issue securities that increase their expected profits by reducing the repayment probability below what buyers expect.

In most instances, the best sources of information about possible unlawful conduct in the marketplace are market participants themselves if a seller's cartel is suspected, buyers if a buyer's cartel is suspected (which often occurs in the agricultural sector), sellers.

Conversely, a crash in house prices does not destroy any real wealth (the houses still stand). On the contrary, a crash makes the dream of ownership more affordable, which benefits first time buyers typically the young and less well off.