…tariff games up and down and who makes deals and who does not. That is enough to create uncertainty in the market. “There are factors likely reducing the demand for…

…easy and inexpensive to enter and exit the market for anti-bad things software, the market is literally global (you can buy software made anywhere and download it from your desk…

…houses for sale, which in turn led to bidding wars among buyers and a spike in prices. A rebalancing of the market more than anything would require an increase in…

…the last two years, and the depreciation of the nominal exchange rate continues to pass through to prices. Fiscal austerity will drag aggregate demand and prices – just hold on….

by Mike Kimel Prices and Quantity for Whale Oil and Whale Bone Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. The following graph shows the price and quantity of Sperm whale oil…

…mainstream economics sees prices as a virtuous. Everything can be solved by price. If there is some unbalance in the economy, it merely means prices need to rise or fall,…

…prices: speculation is reducing supply and leverage is increasing demand. The Bust Housing “bubbles” typically do not “pop”, rather prices deflate slowly in real terms, over several years. Historically real…

UPDATE: In this context, Dr. Black catches Jamie Dimon expressing what is at best ignorance: However, [Dimon] cautioned, until the market meltdown “you never saw losses in these products, because…

By Spencer, What is causing the rise in oil prices? Part of it is that $30 oil in December was most likely too low, and as the world economy and…

Earlier today in discussing auto prices I’m afraid I did not explain myself very well. Let me use actual data and see if I can do better. Because the CPI…