Homeowners, backed by rising house prices, are piling up debt.

Prices went up.

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

Political pundits agree that presidential approval ratings are highly correlated with gas prices when prices go up, a president s poll ratings go down.

Food prices, which have shot up 83 , are not likely to start falling until after 2009.

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

True, prices for many key commodities are up 25 to 50 since the start of the year.

Housing prices are being propped up temporarily by myriad subsidies, while a commercial real estate tsunami looms.

Emerging market demand has pushed up commodity prices.

Prices are high.

Through May, property prices were up 18 year on year.

That, in turn, reduces oil exports, driving up prices further.

These prices are unacceptable.

Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world.

But, whereas metal prices have fallen, oil prices are reaching record highs.

The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.

Oil prices are not helping.

Prices are high these days.

Meanwhile, by embracing biofuels, for example, we are essentially burning food in our cars, which drives up food prices and exacerbates hunger.

Record high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.

Another interpretation is that people are saving a great deal, and that all this money is chasing investment assets, bidding up prices.

Subsidies are common, but prices are not fixed.

There are rumors that Sechin s clan has designs on Russia s Stabilization Fund, which soaring energy prices have pumped up to over 140 billion.

After all, banks are bound to lend on adequate collateral and, in the run up to the crisis, rising house prices provided it.

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

Corporate earnings in Brazil have gone up roughly as fast as stock prices.

Then massive turmoil erupted in the Middle East, further ratcheting up oil prices.

Likewise, modern energy crops increase deforestation, displace agriculture, and push up food prices.

Oil prices are soaring, as are Putin s approval ratings.

Gas prices are growing, and so are Russian salaries.

Never mind that high demand drives up oil prices, creating a windfall for many in the Middle East who are not among America s friends.

It is also during such periods that we discover how many people who are holding long term bonds, real estate, or stocks are doing so not because they think current prices are attractive relative to fundamentals, but because their prices have gone up over the past several years.

The local producer prices are the prices that are received by the farmers and do not include market and transportation costs.

These prices are not unique to Europe.

It's more expensive to transport goods. Prices of goods go up, inflation is affected.

The embargo drove up prices and unleashed a period of inflation and stagnation worldwide.

Much of the stimulus to homeowners is propping up housing prices at unsustainable levels.

In other cases, they impose high prices on leased lines, and these prices may represent up to 70 per cent of the total cost of ISPs.

In Niger, pastoralists use mobile phones to keep abreast of commodity prices in regional markets, which enables them to sell their camels where prices are highest and purchase grains where prices are lowest.

In addition, Gazprom is now overpaying its suppliers, because its long term contracts are for prices that are now far above market prices.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted.

Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

As prices went up and recessionary pressures increased, many homeowners failed to pay their mortgages.

Convinced that private ownership has become essential to smart living, buyers bid up home prices.

Gazprom is buying up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its monopoly.