Market Clearing

In economics, market clearing refers to either

  1. a simplifying assumption made by the new classical school that markets always go to where the quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded; or
  2. the process of getting there via price adjustment.

Read more about Market Clearing:  On Market Clearing

Famous quotes containing the words market and/or clearing:

    “When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    “We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)