…prices and utilization contribute to per-person spending growth by category. Spending increases were largely driven by rising prices. Between 2018 and 2022, average prices increased (14%) overall. Among medical services,…

Existing home market inventory and prices move slowly towards normalization, while sales remain punk  – by New Deal democrat Since existing-homes sales are less important for economic purposes, and especially…

…as well: Meanwhile prices (brown in the graph below), which are not seasonally adjusted, were increased 3.1% m/m, but more importantly declined -1.4% YoY. Prices of new homes have been…

…the beef prices are. Nothing works when you try to artificially control prices. It’s just the supply and demand issue. It’s a flawed idea.” Warren asked Kernen if he had…

…medication prices, another $5 billion from the rebates drugmakers who raise their prices higher than inflation will have to pay to the program, and $13 billion from the cap on…

…health care markets these days are dominated by a single mega health care provider with so much market power that it can simply dictate prices even to the largest purchasers of health…

…Which brings us to the stock market. Below I compare yields on the 10 year Treasury to stock prices as measured by the S&P Index for the past five years:…

…to promote domestic manufacturing, the main economic impact will be higher prices. Drug and device makers’ price card Why are higher prices a given in health care? The drug and…

…we saw a deceleration in the YoY% change in prices, but that reversed in autumn, as after a 4.0% YoY increase in October, the pace re-accelerated and in December prices…

…through December, according to the Case-Shiller national index (light blue in the graphs below) prices rose 0.5%, and the somewhat more leading FHFA purchase only index (dark blue) rose 0.4%….