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The goal is simple: to produce electricity at as low a
price
as possible.
With less and less yield to be found in traditional fixed-income assets, investors piled into risk assets of all forms, driving up their price; the rich got richer, and the middle class was left further behind.
When Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, hiked the
price
of the toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim – a lifesaving treatment for AIDS patients – from $13.50 per tablet to $750, his reputation tanked.
The search for higher yields drove investors and speculators to developing countries, where the inflows increased leverage, propped up equity prices, and in some cases supported a commodity
price
boom.
Today, we are paying the
price
for not attending to Europe's shared values and common mission.
By the time I finished my research in 1982, the
price
of oil had begun what would become a 20-year plunge.
I used to joke that the most important thing I learned from my research was never to attempt to forecast the
price
of oil.
As 2014 comes to a close, the
price
of oil has just crossed the $100 threshold again – this time headed down.
Over the course of my career, I have tried to determine whether there is such a thing as an equilibrium oil
price.
My conclusion is that a good indication of this moving equilibrium does exist: the five-year forward oil price, or the amount paid for guaranteed delivery of oil five years from now.
In my ongoing quest to become better at forecasting, I began, a few years ago, to pay attention to the five-year forward oil
price
as it compares to the Brent crude oil spot price, the
price
of a barrel of oil today.
I suspect that the five-year forward
price
is much less influenced by speculation in the oil market than the spot price, and more representative of true commercial needs.
So when the five-year
price
starts moving in a different direction than the spot price, I take notice.
In 2011, after both prices had recovered from the collapse induced by the 2008 credit crisis, the five-year
price
started to come down gradually, while the spot
price
continued to surge for a while.
This jibed with what I had identified as two big factors fundamentally driving the
price
of oil: the early days of the exploitation of shale oil and gas in the United States, and the shift in China’s economic focus from quantity to quality, which implied that the Chinese economy would no longer be consuming energy at the frenetic rate it had been.
I thought it was probably the beginning of a move back down to $80 per barrel – precisely where the
price
has landed at the end of 2014.
The spot
price
has even recently slipped below that level.
The drop in the spot
price
of oil has taken it significantly below the five-year forward price, which remains close to $80 per barrel.
The Fed protests that to change its inflation target even once would erode the credibility of its commitment to ensuring
price
stability.
The consumer
price
index dropped to 0.8%; the producer
price
index fell by 4.3%; exports contracted by 3.3%; imports were down by 19.9%; and growth of broad money (M2) slowed by 1.4%.
To Trump’s team, this is collateral damage, the inevitable
price
that must be paid to give America’s plutocrats more money.
The praiseworthy intention is to avoid a recurrence of the cost and
price
divergence within the eurozone during the last ten years.
Those countries whose prices have shot up over the last decade point the finger, correctly, at German competitive disinflation, which has led the ECB to keep interest rates low instead of helping them to halt the
price
spiral.
The last set of proposals addresses a problem that has not been stressed enough: divergences within the eurozone reflect insufficient economic integration, for they would not have continued to widen if firms and workers had reacted more swiftly to
price
differences.
The plummeting
price
of renewables will drive business investment in low-carbon power, whatever the US does.
The
price
of the 30-year Treasury bond is so high that it implies a yield of about 2.3%; given current inflation expectations, the yield should be about twice as high.
Those
price
declines would reduce incomes and spending in other countries, with the impact spread globally through reduced imports and exports.
Third-party ownership, in which a company installs and maintains solar panels, in exchange for either a set monthly rate or a fixed
price
per unit of power, has driven up adoption rates in California, financing more than two-thirds of new installations in 2012 and 2013.
Exporters of any particular commodity should issue debt that is denominated in terms of the
price
of that commodity, rather than in dollars or any other currency.
The advantage of such bonds is that in the event of a decline in the world
price
of the underlying commodity, the debt-to-export ratio need not rise.
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