April’s consumer and producer prices; March wholesale sales
…as producer prices for natural gas to electric utilities rose 10.2%, producer prices for industrial natural gas rose 7.0%, refinery prices for jet fuel rose 14.8%, and refinery prices for…
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Producer Prices Up and Record Increase for Final Demand Goods
…prices averaged 5.0% higher on a 8.0% increase in wholesale prices for gasoline, a 10.6% increase in wholesale prices for home heating oil, and a 6.2% increase in wholesale prices for…
Even with a Trump Deal, Drug Prices Increase
…prices. But in January (the time of year when pharmaceutical companies typically roll out price hikes) all 16 companies released higher list prices for some of their drugs. The agreements,…
Gold Standard
…foreseeable market clearing price. If it was less than any foreseeable market clearing price the banking system could not accumulate the gold stocks necessary for the system to work. If…
CPI Rose 0.4% in February on Higher Prices for Energy and Medical Services
…only partly offset by lower prices for clothing, used vehicles, and airline fares…the Consumer Price Index Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that seasonally adjusted prices averaged 0.4%…
That Prices were up the most since 2012 is probably also noteworthy . . .
CPI Rose 0.6% in March on Higher Prices for Energy and Transportation Services, R.J.S, MarketWatch 666 The consumer price index rose 0.6% in March, the largest monthly increase since August 2012,…
US natural gas hits highest price since 2008, closes at 7 1/2 year weekly high;
…for each…each bar in the graph above represents the range of natural gas prices for a single month, with months when prices rose indicated in green, and months when prices…
The economic tailwind from last autumn’s declining gas prices is probably over
…GDP (*5 for scale): Basically this shows that “the remedy for high (low) prices is high (low) prices.” Big run-ups in prices create GDP slowdowns about 1 year later, and…
How increasing local oligopolization has distorted the housing market
…10% overall, enticing lots of new potential buyers into the market. All well and good. But my reaction went a little beyond that: “Holy crap! Builders can slash their prices…
Health Care Thoughts: Counterproductive Regulations?
…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…