…competition in the market. Customers would have fewer options and there would be fewer constraints on the prices charged by competitors. (Page 109) Constraining the prices charged by competitors has…
…Foods Co. Albertson’s would bring with it Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets and Balducci’s Food Lovers Market….
…constructed the following graph of the components of gasoline prices, which include the estimated price per gallon due to crude oil prices, taxes, the margin for refineries, and the margin…
…lead to higher inflation in general. In a world of smoothly-adjusting markets and prices, then when the price of one type of good rises, we would expect the prices of…
…growth rates – “limit hospital prices to Medicare prices plus 20 percent.” The authors of this particular article (originally in JAMA) on Medicare advocate using VA Pricing for Insulin. Further…
Prices soar, sales drop; oh by the way, sales lead prices New home sales declined -8.6% in March, which isn’t as sharp as it seems since declines of this magnitude…
…prices peaked in early June, and gas prices at mid-month. So here is a 9 month graph, via GasBuddy, of gas prices: The declines in gas price declines slowed down…
…antibiotic cartel; in the early 1990s when the first biotechnology drugs came to market at exorbitant prices; in the mid-1990s when AIDS activists protested the high price of the new…
…doing this because of an important secular change I noticed that appears to have happened in the financial markets. Back when I first started delving into financial markets and economy…
…pricing to what the market will bear. No one knows the others adding their data. However, the end result is what is being charged is particular markets for similar products….