…the effect on the relative share of the market.  I am following up now because yesterday Kevin Drum put up a post yesterday in which he concluded that “The price…

…Fe, New Mexico, Albertsons has a 37% market share, while Kroger has a 22% market share. Post-merger, that market share would jump to 59%, and the combined entity would own…

Here’s House Speaker Mike Johnson: “We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state. These agencies have been weaponized against the people. It’s crushing the free market; it’s like…

…benefits if well-designed, directed to address well-identified market failures, and based on competition-enhancing principles and sound cost-benefit analysis. Examples of market failure include a lack of know-how or capital-market imperfections…

…$1000. At issue, the “face rate” — which never changes — is the same as the “yield,” which depends on market IRs. If IRs rise, then the prices of previously…

…bad thing. Commodity prices as measured by the PPI are up 2.3% since the election (blue), but since commodity markets are global, how much, eg., lumber can be bought is…

…rate of 4%, but around 7.75% for low-paid workers as low-paid workers benefited from a tight labor market. The spread narrowed during the mid-2023 to mid-2024, as the economy slowly…

…There has been growing concern about the affordability of homeownership in the United States, particularly for first-time homebuyers. The rapid rise in house prices during the pandemic has been followed…

– by New Deal democrat The bond market is sending the T—-p Administration, and the US government as a whole, a message. It believes the US is in a secular…

…Feedstock, Nylon Supply Base Quietly Shrank” Plastics Today Michael Workman The resin market story you’ve been reading about all spring is real. Benzene is approaching $5 a gallon, caprolactam is…