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At the time, many policymakers blamed rapid
price
increases on “cost push” factors, such as pressure from trade unions for excessive wage hikes.
In India, this takes the form of loan waivers for distressed farmers (which weaken the banks);
price
controls for water, electricity, and public transportation (which wreck government budgets and undermine the prospect of long-term investment in those areas); and more subsidized food in the corrupt and inefficient public distribution system.
The
price
of oil, the country’s main export, has dropped by half since December.
For example, the NASDAQ stock
price
index made a spectacular 14% jump upwards on the day (January 3, 2001) when America's Fed began its latest series of interest rate cuts.
This is because if they have to move and sell their house, there may be no buyers who can afford higher interest payments, unless the home's
price
also falls.
After two years of rate increases, Australia's home
price
boom only recently shows signs of abating.
Lower European demand and an oil
price
that no longer suffices to sustain Russia’s budget stand to hobble the Kremlin very quickly.
Safety comes with a
price
tag.
These ideas, combined with effective policy practice like that of the US Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker’s chairmanship, led many countries worldwide toward more explicit inflation targeting, in which central banks stabilize inflation expectations by making a credible commitment to a predetermined rate of
price
growth.
This stance reflects the Fed’s dual mandate, according to which monetary policy targets maximum employment consistent with
price
stability.
Such preventive measures are all the more important in view of the Great Inflation’s second relevant lesson: fiscal discipline is essential to
price
stability.
At the time most EU countries resorted to pegging their currencies to the D-Mark, in the hope of gaining credibility for their efforts to achieve
price
stability.
There is also the issue of the so-called reserve
price
(the highest
price
a buyer is willing to pay for a good or service).
The reserve
price
places a cap on how high commodity prices will go, as it is the
price
at which demand destruction occurs (consumers are no longer willing or able to purchase the good or service).
For many commodities, such as oil, the reserve
price
is higher in emerging countries than in developed economies.
One explanation for the difference is accelerating wage growth across developing regions, which is raising commodity demand, whereas stagnating wages in developed markets are causing the reserve
price
to decline.
Such
price
increases can prove particularly inflationary in countries that import commodities.
Her Alan Greenspan-like belief in the self-correcting features of financial markets, and her reverence for the integrity of the
price
mechanism, do not look as well-founded today as they did in the 1980’s.
I wrote The
Price
of Civilization out of the conviction that the US government has failed to understand and respond to the challenges of globalization ever since it began to impact America’s economy in the 1970’s.
In 1980, the biologist Paul Ehrlich and the economist Julian Simon made another famous wager – on the
price
of five metals ten years later.
Do we end up focusing on
price
because we can measure it, to the exclusion of other things that matter?
Quality used to be included in the
price
of a ticket; now, with surcharges for seat selection, meals, and the like, customers are charged for it separately.
The Elusive Benefits of Flexible Exchange RatesCAMBRIDGE – In 1953, Milton Friedman published an essay called “The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates,” arguing that they cushion an economy from internal and external shocks by bringing about just the right
price
changes required to keep the economy at full employment.
In an efficient system, this should reduce the
price
of US goods relative to those of the rest of the world, with US exports becoming cheaper than imports.
Likewise, a weaker yen does little to spur Japanese exports to the US, because the dollar
price
of those exports remains roughly constant.
So fluctuations in the
price
and quantity of India’s imports from China, for example, depend on the rupee-dollar exchange rate, rather than the rupee-renminbi exchange rate.
The strength of the US dollar is thus a key predictor of aggregate trade volume and consumer/producer
price
inflation worldwide.
If the
price
of automobiles had fallen as quickly as the
price
of semiconductors, a car today would cost $5.
Is there something in it for him – a higher stock price, an advertising fee, or someone else’s gratitude?
One reason for the distortion is the
price
of food relative to income.
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