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

Even though home prices have already fallen sharply, there has been no meaningful rebound.

Furthermore, with oil prices up so much, inventories should have fallen, owing to strong incentives to reduce holdings.

Oil prices have fallen from above 78 per barrel in mid July to less than 60 in early October.

Instead, despite recent increases, commodity prices have generally fallen to about a third of their level 150 years ago.

While food prices initially showed greater resilience, they have fallen more sharply than those of other commodities over the past year.

But house prices have since fallen some 40 on average, leaving one third of homeowners with mortgages owing more than their house is worth.

Most of the leaves have fallen.

Although oil prices have now fallen back from their peak, that debate must not be forgotten, for it has profound policy implications that government officials would be derelict to ignore.

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.

The recent recovery of asset prices from their March lows is in part justified by fundamentals, as the risks of global financial meltdown and depression have fallen and confidence has improved.

Economic fundamentals have fallen by the wayside.

( And say ) We have fallen into debt

( And say ) We have fallen into debt

Strictly speaking, the Wall would not have fallen.

And when the stars have fallen and scattered

And when the stars have fallen and scattered

For example, in the US, the Engineering News Record Building Cost Index (which is based on prices of labor, concrete, steel, and lumber) has actually fallen relative to consumer prices over the past 30 years.

Prices have dropped recently.

In many countries, tobacco taxes have fallen in real terms.

Markets, too, have fallen into a state of relative complacency.

These figures have fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

The prices of traded mortgage backed securities have followed house prices down.

Meanwhile, the IMF s critics have not gone away they have merely fallen silent temporarily.

But both have fallen, and in continental Europe unemployment is higher.

According to recent data, remittances have slowed or even fallen slightly.

Unit labor costs have risen, and potential output growth has fallen.

Yet their protests have fallen on deaf ears in your government.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

We might therefore have expected hours of work to have fallen by about two thirds.

Tariffs have fallen, although non tariff barriers and preferential agreements have been on the rise.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

In fact, working hours have not fallen since the early 1980 s.

Borrowing costs for the Spanish and Italian governments have similarly fallen dramatically.

A tree has fallen. A mighty tree has fallen!

Yes, these countries will recover at a slower pace than elsewhere, but countries that have fallen into a deep hole must work harder than those that have fallen into a shallow one.

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

True, some currencies have risen and others have fallen, but on average almost nothing has happened.

But no radiologists have lost jobs in the US since then, nor have their earnings fallen.

So far, America s economic policymakers have fallen short on all of these fronts.

But these banks also would have fallen in importance in the total index.

Secondly, as living conditions have improved, the incidence of poverty has fallen substantially.

In fact they have fallen by only one third and have stopped falling since the 1980 s.

Moreover, real wages have barely risen for more than 60 of German workers, they have actually fallen.

Prices for many commodities have doubled over the past couple of years. Oil prices have risen almost 400 in the last five years.