…including the availability of significant leverage, the PPIF transactions in these frozen markets will have a significant impact on how any particular asset is priced in the market. As a…

…assume that, since the housing bubble burst, I believe that my house has fallen in value by too much. I would understand a 20% decline, but the “market price” that…

…cut real debt in half the price level has to double not increase by 50%. OK maybe he meant the real value would be multiplied by 0.9 in a year…

…no accountability, buy the assets for inflated prices. That is a huge transfer from the public to shareholders and officers of banks. A huge pool would be easier to price…

…windfall profit taxes in the future seems to me to be desireable. It means that Oil companies don’t gain as much when the price of oil goes up. Since they…

…read what Bill Kucewicz wrote about world aggregate demand and commodity prices in general: Confirmaton that the ongoing rise in commodity prices is of economic origin and not a worrisome…

This morning the BLS released its estimate of producer price inflation for December: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 0.9 percent in December, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of…

…from the producing countries, the buyer’s cartel would release the oil in the market and let demand determine the price. If current demand conditions remain unchanged then the price would…

…into today’s dollar into an inflation-adjusted price of $1.65. In the spring of 2001, the nominal price was $1.70, which translates into an inflation-adjusted price of $1.87. Of course, it…

We have heard numerous NRO pundits hammer the FED for not following some sort of price-rule for monetary policy. Their version of a price-rule is often a commodity price-rule as…