…who is price-gouging. OK, I’m not convinced there is price-fixing or gouging either, but look at what else I found over at the Corner from KLo. It seems she is…

…of the arm’s-length principle. Under that approach, the “correct” price is the price at which companies or people would be willing to trade if those traders were not economically related….

…the early 1980’s but remember that the price-level has doubled since then. If current proposals are to impose a tax for prices above $60 a barrel, we will not collect…

…price-to-sales ratio is really the product of the profit margin times the price-earnings ratio. And his book with Kevin Hassett was not suggesting that the typical price-earnings ratio is 10….

Martin Wolk attributes the following alleged correlation to Ben Bernanke: For example, states exhibiting higher rates of job growth also tend to have experienced greater appreciation in house prices. The…

…supply of newly built residences. So it should not be shocking that home prices have tended to rise on a steady basis, averaging 6.5 percent price gains over the last…

The price of oil is at around $60 per barrel for the second day in a row today. Note that this is this highest price for crude oil in real…

…known for his highly technical work in time series econometrics, but also happens to do a lot of more applied work on oil prices. He agrees that the oil price…

…Real estate prices never fall. In fact, housing price busts are extremely common. For some examples, take a look at the graph below, which shows real housing prices in several…

…rising health care and education prices, we don’t have fewer people going to college or seeing the doctor and we do have bigger houses, more and better cars, better food,…