…the case with crude oil prices: In the last few years, gas prices have made their seasonal peak in June. If we are near the peak for this year, this…

Oil prices are collapsing as West Texas intermediate is now trading at just over $11/bbl Oil prices move to the point where the marginal supply is profitable or unprofitable. In…

…(red): The spike in prices in used cars alone is responsible for about 1/3 of the total increase in prices last month. Used car prices, which are about 3.2% of…

…prices. They aren’t getting very much for their cattle. This is weird, because, normally, beef and cattle prices move in tandem – the current high beef prices should result in…

…on world markets, due to disruption from the Russian invasion.  Oil prices have quintupled since their April 2020 low and wheat prices have more than tripled, with both of them…

…cost of hospital care is the prices paid by commercial health plans. These prices have increased substantially over time, as has the gap between them and the prices paid by…

…prices may be – to use a recently dreaded word – transitory,” since gas prices had declined 5% month over month at the time of last month’s report. In the…

…cover. This is called cost-shifting. Cost shifting occurs when a private firm acts to offset losses in revenue from regulations establishing lower prices in Medicare (etc.) by increasing drug prices…

…versus costs. Europe has similar issues with negotiating prices. We have a tendency to interchange the words prices and costs as if they mean the same thing. They do not….

…have to come up with this year as fertilizer prices hit highs not seen since 2008, on top of higher prices last year. The difference is that in 2008 we…