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Labor market rents can cause business cycles

…2. Well that’s an extreme example. Now how about this one Good_1 is an inferior good. This means that for fixed relative prices (and relative prices must be fixed) there…

Controlling spending through price

…that the price of the brand name will be the co-pay plus the difference in cost to Tufts Health Care between the two drugs. Currently for a drug such as…

Oil Price

The price of oil touched $100 today. The new record is being accompanied by all kinds of analysis and comments relating this new record to developments in the US economy….

The World House-Price Boom

…This look at house prices in the US makes one thing clear: in all regions of the US, the house price bubble picked up steam in the past year, rather…

Producer Price Inflation

The November PPI report was released today. It came in a bit above expectations: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 0.5 percent in November, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau…

…than by the ratio of the home to the foreign price level, and thus created a series that is essentially meaningless. Luskin’s graph shows the price of foreign currency in…