Lifted from Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts comes this comment on Matt Yglesias: by Robert Waldmann Matthew Yglesias asks (Does Uncompensated Care Raise Prices for the Insured?) . I am having trouble…
…February 1934, almost certainly explain most of the increase in goods prices, stock prices, and industrial production during that period. But why? Not because it boosted our trade balance, which…
…This chart compares the price of oil to the CRB Index of industrial commodity prices — an index of 13 major commodities that does not include any energy or food…
…we had just witnessed a record decline in prices. It would seem that prices have come down since then too – but would you call them low? Update: AB reader…
…stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23 percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even after a housing boom goes…
…of 2004 compared to the third quarter. Because prices rose so much earlier in 2004, the year-on-year (y-o-y) percent change in house prices was still high at the end of…
…Second house prices generally rise proportional to other prices (except for a relative decline during the depression, increase during WWII and the recent bubble). Expected house prices should move roughly…
…surgeries by Maggie Mahar. Bookmark the permalink. 6 THOUGHTS ON “A NEW IOM REPORT REVEALS WHY MEDICARE COSTS SO MUCH (HINT–IT’S NOT JUST THE PRICES)” – See more at: http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2013/08/a-new-iom-report-reveals-why-medicare-costs-so-much-hint-its-not-just-the-prices/#more-2289…
Across the Curve has a post about pressure to lower prices… The culprit is the weakness of labor’s income to bolster prices. So now many companies are maneuvering to do…
The story hardly bears repeating: Pricing is the ultimate miracle of Darwinian markets. Competitors who produce goods at lower prices thrive, expand their operations, and produce more. Those who charge…