How the Supplement Industry Needs to Improve
Could the supplement industry do better? The biggest issues in the supplement industry include contamination, potential health risks, and regulation concerns.
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The Symbiotic Growth of the Fitness Industry and Supplement Industry
Have you ever wondered about the size and growth of the different markets that make up the fitness industry? Let's dig into today's fitness industry and sports nutritional supplements industry.
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The Growth of the Pharmaceutical Industry
To truly grasp the size and growth of the pharmaceutical market, we need to dig deep into sales revenue amounts and changes over time and projections based on years of past market data, as well as the major growth factors and challenges facing the industry today.
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The Demographics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Some of the biggest demographic factors in pharmaceutical medicine usage include age, gender, race and ethnicity, and type of chronic medical condition.
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The Demographics of the Supplement Industry
A look at the demographics of the supplement industry provides insight on who uses the most supplements and why — and raises questions about what's keeping certain populations from using supplements to the same extent.
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The Growth of the Supplement Industry: A Report for 2022
The global supplement market brought in $151.9 billion in 2021 and is on track to grow at an 8.9% CAGR between 2022 and 2030.
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Winners Take All — Book Review
Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. New York: Knopf, 2018. xvi + 288 pages. $26.95. Overview This book is an engaging, ground-level, journalistic report about a world hidden in plain sight. The author calls it “MarketWorld.” What is MarketWorld? MarketWorld is hydra-headed monster consisting of a physical space, a […]
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Superabundance Book Review
Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, with Foreword by George Gilder. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2022; xvii + 547 pages; $34.95. The central thesis of Superabundance is very simple: Malthus was wrong! What does this mean? Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) […]
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In Defense of Merit: Why a Free Society Needs to Resist the Assault on Merit
Merit has become a dirty word. Almost as bad as privilege. It has come to mean an unfair advantage that threatens to overturn diversity, equity, and inclusion. To reward someone for merit means not rewarding someone for failing to exhibit merit. Merit, by its very nature, is not easily won, regardless of what the rules […]
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Sports Salary Inflation: What Decades of Data Reveal
Professional sports stars have seen tremendous earnings growth over the past several decades. Where professional major-league athletes once had to work off-season jobs just to make ends meet, their per-season salaries and bonuses now amount to many times what the average American family can expect to earn over the course of a lifetime. Sports salary […]
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