This situation will remain manageable only if oil prices stop increasing.

Rising house prices gave people the illusion that increasing wealth backed their borrowing.

From Egypt, My Life Thinking writes about increasing gas prices in his country.

Recent years have been characterized by increasing attendance and ticket prices for professional baseball games.

Its performance is explained by the presence of incentives rising producer prices and the increasing prices which these products are fetching on the international markets.

Arms deliveries to Irtogte are increasing and prices for arms have risen sharply owing to high demand.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization argues that rising food prices could lead to increasing global conflicts.

Inflation is increasing beyond what can be explained by rising commodity and food prices, while credit growth and some asset prices are starting to look high relative to historical standards.

Increasing worries about global warming, and its effects on food prices, or about the cold and snowy winter in the northern hemisphere and its effects on heating fuel prices, are contagious stories.

Prices are increasing, more transactions are being conducted in cash, and more dubious business figures are arriving from around the world.

To combat the effect of high oil prices, consuming countries adopt expansionary economic policies, lowering interest rates and increasing government spending.

The three pillars of UNCTAD's work should be geared towards assisting developing countries in the current context of increasing oil prices.

The rapid increases in prices generally, made worse by increasing fuel prices in mid June 2001, not only made the poor even poorer but also lowered the real wages of those who remained employed.

Privatization and liberalization have produced mixed results, either increasing prices for the poor or entailing other adjustment costs (e.g. loss of employment).

Possibly most clearly visible are impacts on prices, with studies showing that the presence of hypermarkets results in drops in prices for dried food, household goods and personal care, thus increasing the population's disposable income.

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

Indeed, food prices are currently increasing in Europe, because more and more farmland is being used for bio fuels instead of for food production.

Measures mandated by the central government to control surging real estate prices will continue to reinforce this trend, increasing pressure on local government revenues.

The scrap market, traditionally the most volatile, has maintained its unsteadiness, with prices increasing almost threefold in some countries in 2004 before falling again.

High oil prices and the initially weak currency followed by increasing domestic demand, consumption, and investments has helped the economy grow for nine straight years, improving the standard of living and increasing Russia's influence on the world stage.

In three years, we may well see labor shortages, rising wages, and increasing prices in expanding sectors, accompanied by high unemployment elsewhere in the economy.

Such homeowners knew that with rising prices they would be able to realize a gain by either selling their homes or increasing their debt, while in the case of falling prices they could simply hand over the keys to their banks.

To respond to inflation by increasing interest rates would simply compound the difficulties of high prices with high unemployment and an even less competitive exchange rate.

Not only would this reduce hunger by increasing food production and lowering food prices it would also protect biodiversity, because higher crop productivity would mean less deforestation.

In doing so, the Fed is relying on the wealth effect brought about largely by increasing equity and home prices as its principal transmission mechanism for stabilization policy.

There is now some pushback on prices, but drug companies are compensating by convincing more people to take more drugs for dubious or exaggerated ailments, thereby increasing volume.

Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.

Also, petrol prices have generally risen in the past few years, and while this is doubtless mostly because of increasing demand, the suspicion exists that cartels are at least partly responsible.

the increasing gap between world and domestic price in commodity markets over the past 25 years , World Bank Economic Review, vol. 12, No. 3 (1998), pp. 503 526) notes that since the 1970s, commodity prices have fallen in international markets at the same time that consumer prices have risen.

Combined with increasing demand from those with higher incomes and lower supplies due to weather related problems associated with climate change, this means high food prices a lethal threat to developing countries.

They have only limited land, and if one assumes ever increasing GDP and rising income inequality, there will always be more and more wealthy people to bid up prices in these scarce areas.

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Many people appear to believe that upswings in home prices reflect increasing scarcity of land in a world constrained by rapid economic growth and severe resource constraints (symbolized by the fear of global warming).

And, with Americans facing a debt overhang, rapidly increasing unemployment (and the worst unemployment compensation system among major industrial countries), and falling asset prices, they are likely to save much of the tax cut.

Over the counter trading also contributes to the opacity of derivatives markets, further reducing competition and increasing the margin enjoyed by the traders and the prices that final users (mostly industrial firms) must pay.

Taxes and charges These can be used to change the behaviour of tourists and enterprises, for example through increasing prices, and also for raising revenue from them for use in conservation or social projects.

Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

This may well look like structural unemployment in three years. In three years, we may well see labor shortages, rising wages, and increasing prices in expanding sectors, accompanied by high unemployment elsewhere in the economy.

This condition was aggravated by poor agricultural harvests as part of the effects of El Nino and La Nina , which meant on the one hand declining food production, with increasing food prices on the other.

Housing prices peaked in 2006, and equity prices peaked in 2007.

Shortages of natural gas increased fertilizer prices, pushing up food prices.

These may be either the best country prices or perhaps even international prices, but they are not local farm gate prices.

Even many of the poorest countries seemed, at long last, to be joining in, posting strong growth on the back of rising energy and raw material prices, renewed mining investments from abroad, and increasing fiscal revenues.

Its proponents argue that it is the main policy instrument left, and that it will work by increasing credit or lowering the discount rate, which will raise asset prices and hence consumption via balance sheet effects.

High oil prices fuel public discussion about the future of oil prices.