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A larger domestic market encourages diversification of the national economy, reducing dependence on exports of natural resources and, in turn, exposure to global price fluctuations.
Most experts predict that such a move would drive the price of oil – including the Venezuelan, Nigerian, and other oil that the US, China, and India consume – above $100 per barrel.
Oil is a fungible commodity, and markets clear at a common price.
When the dust settled, it turned out that American, Dutch, and other importers all suffered roughly the same degree of shortfall and paid the same damaging high price.
The US uses only half as much oil per dollar of production as it did before the price spikes of the 1970’s.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol attempted to use a system of tradable quotas to establish a price on carbon-dioxide emissions, but foundered after the United States and several emerging countries refused to join.
We propose a carbon “price-and-rebate” mechanism, which simultaneously sets a price on emissions above a certain threshold and defines how the revenues raised should be used.
The ideal carbon price would depend on the objectives of the agreement.
A price of $1-2 per ton would generate $14-28 billion, enough to fund the deployment of the monitoring, review, and verification process in developing countries.
If rich countries are unable to agree to pay even a modest price for carbon, the talks in Paris will surely be judged a failure.
Of course, if that inhabitant already owned a house there that they can sell, they may regard the price increase as a windfall that they can claim by departing.
In New York City, the median home price stands at 5.7 times median household income.
For example, the geographical boundaries of the areas used to compute median price and median rent may vary.
China’s headline consumer price index (CPI) jumped 6.4% year on year in June, reaching its highest level since July 2008.
In China, food prices account for about a third of the CPI basket, with the price of pork bearing a large weight.
As a result, the CPI is jokingly called the “pork price index.”
Current inflation is more broad-based than it appears, regardless of the controversy surrounding the adequacy of China’s CPI basket in reflecting the reality of underlying price movements.
The rise in commodity prices since mid-2010 – China’s commodity price index has increased by more than 100% since its 2009 low – has had an important impact.
In short, although China will miss its inflation target of 4% for this year, price growth will remain under control.
After China’s trade surplus peaked at 9% of GDP in 2007, it adjusted to the receding price competitiveness: it has been less than half that level each year since 2010.
Equity portfolio investment may involve price volatility as ownership positions change, but at least it implies a permanent commitment of capital to a business enterprise.
The aid that Ethiopia receives from its friends may be a small price to pay to keep Africa’s second largest country from descending into chaos.
Fighting Terrorism DemocraticallyBombings in London and Turkey have brought to the fore the old ideas that authoritarian regimes are better equipped than democracies to combat terrorism, and that such attacks are the price we pay for liberty.
For some, that is a price worth paying; for others, the costs seem too high.
Inflation in the US has been consistently below target and, even today, bond yields reflect deep skepticism about whether the Fed has the will or the capacity to sustain price growth at the official 2% target on a consistent basis.
Some believe the only salvation is a return to the gold standard era of the late 1800s, when governments fixed the price of their currency in gold, leaving little scope for political interference.
The rabies vaccine is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines, and has an average wholesale price of $11 per dose in the developing world, and as much as $250 per dose in the United States.
After 100 years, the price tag will be a whopping $724.
Does the Fed really want to increase annual inflation to 2%, such that the price level of the country will increase by more than 700% over the next century?
On July 2, 1996, at a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which was devoted to extensive discussion of the appropriate inflation target for the Fed, Greenspan posed a simple question: “Are we talking about price stability or are we talking about zero inflation?” he asked.
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