Yet water is cheap.

Fish is cheap today.

Potatoes are very cheap.

Low cost oil is rapidly being depleted.

Marijuana's too cheap, it turns out.

Cheap Oil and Global Growth

Improved agricultural productivity would benefit rural areas and give farmers a comparative share in the Union s growing wealth.

Good, healthy, and cheap food had to be accessible for all citizens.

That will hold true as long as cheap energy from Russia acts as a de facto economic subsidy.

At the Olde Hansa try some first rate Estonian cooking, and even a little bear meat, which doesn t come cheap.

Prisoners are not hired to provide a service to the community, they're hired because it is cheaper.

And coding supported products often have lower costs per unit of output than even very cheap labor can provide.

To cross the Grand Canal for cheap, look out for a traghetto, one of the commuter gondolas that cross from seven different points.

China's much lower labor costs mean that Mexican jobs and income levels are directly at risk.

It is also the food which is sold by street venders, and is bought by the working class for their midday meal because it is cheap and available.

Cheap energy provides a powerful incentive for energy intensive industries from steel and glass to chemicals and pharmaceuticals to locate in the US.

In 2006, the country's cheap workforce and strategic geographic location persuaded the Danish company to take out a lease on a factory in the Eastern town of Nyíregyháza.

Nuclear power is relatively cheap, and could be plentiful, but poses huge dangers for increased proliferation of nuclear weapons materials.

And if you want to understand the world economy, forget about stock markets and focus on the fact that cheap oil always boosts global growth.

This has led to a somewhat skewed perception of Japanese cuisine, as common Japanese dishes the cheap and delicious meals enjoyed daily by average people are sorely underrepresented abroad.

While cheap labor has been a key factor in generating high growth over the past three decades, it has also contributed to profound income disparities, especially in recent years. And persistent, widening inequality might cause social crises that could interrupt growth and damage competitiveness.

While cheap labor has been a key factor in generating high growth over the past three decades, it has also contributed to profound income disparities, especially in recent years.

But many observers have argued that cheap oil also has a downside, because it exacerbates deflationary tendencies in the advanced countries, which already seem to be mired in a low growth trap.

A subsidy for equipment purchased by them is a competitive advantage of industry in the south of Tyumen region, and if it is canceled it will be difficult to compete in price with the temperate zone of Russia where the work force is cheaper.

The old elites remain, locked inside their gated communities, fending off the poor, whom they have no incentive to empower, because plentiful cheap labor is so beneficial to those who employ it.

Mexicans' obsession with China is no accident.

The cheapest system, generating two watts of power, can cost as little as 10 20 and be expanded to almost any level, depending on the size and number of photovoltaic (PV) modules and the size of the battery storage unit.

More than 100,000 component manufacturers, mostly from Japan or Taiwan, have relocated to China's Pearl River and Yangtze River Delta regions, which always had cheap labor but now also have modern highways, port facilities, and communications links.

At the same time, there's a person paying 30,000 dollars for a 300 series car, and a person paying 70,000 dollars for a 700 series, and that person paying more than double doesn't want their car to look too much like the bottom of the market car.