…on the private F/F was to regain market share. Would a fully public F/F be under the same pressure to increase market share? No. The pressure would have been for…

…cost have little impact on final prices. Over the past year semiconductor prices fell about 15% while cotton prices rose 115%. These are changes in relative prices, not inflation. The…

…🙂 Schiller updated here Daily chart House prices Through the floor May 29th 2008 From Economist.com America’s house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression AS HOUSE…

…not mean that Wal-Mart had to charge higher prices. http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/ But he was still unwilling to concede that Wal-Mart did not have to raise prices, claiming that this is what…

The Federal Reserve has been sounding the alarm: the housing market is on fire! It started with Kohn 4/22/2005. “Prices have gone up far enough since [a couple of years…

Kash addressed below the premise of whether higher oil prices will lead to a U.S. recession. As I was grabbing the car keys, Kathleen Hayes said something about how oil…

…prices as low as $21 a barrel to as high as $48 a barrel (all in 2003$). The following chart shows that if prices stay high, we are projected to…

…its value (in real effective terms) over the past two years, yet import prices have risen by just a percent or two more than overall prices in the US. In…

…capital inflows to 64 emerging market economies. Among the drivers of capital flows were real commodity prices: an increase in these prices increased flows to the emerging markets, particularly total…

…about 6 to 12 months). That’s probably because big increases in house prices drive people out of that market, and into the market for apartment rentals.  In other words, not…