Kash’s Call #4: Housing Market Prices My prediction is that housing prices will peak in 2004 in many (perhaps most) of the major regional markets in the US. By late…
You searched for: label/market-clearing prices
Oil Prices
…gas prices is more complex. On the coast gas prices are experiencing small price increase in line with the move in Brent while in the interior gas prices are moving…
The Oil Choke Collar: 2015 may be the acid test
…prices. It is important to remember that, by that time, gas prices in the US has already fallen below $3 a gallon. Was there a political aspect to that? It’s…
Inflation & Corporate Profits
…to make is that corporations control prices. They set prices. They are not just price-takers. Corporations will change prices with an eye on their profits. In the aggregate, we will…
Gimme shelter: the real cost of renting vs. homeownership
Gimme shelter: the real cost of renting vs. homeownership What is the real cost of shelter? Over the last decade there has been lots of discussion of housing prices in…
Two real economic consequences of the Trump presidency
…is a 3 year high: Oil prices have recovered about half of their steep 2014 decline. Prices for gas at the pump are following: Nationwide gas prices are averaging about…
Weekly Indicators for July 2 – 6: long term forecast continues to deteriorate
…stock prices (just barely), and staffing are all positive. Gas prices, the commodities indexes, and the spread between corporate and Treasury bonds are neutral. The US$ is mixed. Oil prices…
“Can You Patent the Sun?”
…prices according to income expectations or they attempt to reach their profit goals by setting prices as high as the market will bear. (4) Sufficient financial returns to incentivize future…
“While Considering Medicare For All: Policies For Making Health Care In The United States Better”
…of enabling healthcare to consolidate and control prices. The authors believe no hospital should be able to charge prices that equal more than Medicare prices plus 20 percent, which is…
Trump All Over The Place On Oil Prices
Trump All Over The Place On Oil Prices Indeed, are we surprised? But POTUS has reached a new level of hypocrisy on all this. So a while ago when oil…
