The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

The mine was permanently closed in 2002 due to declining resources and metal prices.

Lower prices and free food save the lives of millions of starving people, despite the drop in food sales of the local farmers.

High salaries drove growth but reduced earnings.

The resulting supply surge drives down prices, reinforces expectations of further declines, and produces the inverse of a speculative bubble a collapse in prices.

While accepted economic theory would argue that lower prices are good for consumers, it does not consider the hidden costs that accompany lower prices such as the health damaging effects of high levels of methyl mercury and the destruction of ocean marine resources.

The fact that the government is willing to buy in the future (and now) should raise prices today, because it reduces the possibility of low prices in a future fire sale.

Fewer remittances flowing into Uganda could mean less economic activity or simply lower prices.

It announced its intention to stabilize the market and that bearish speculators should beware.

Since price declines would bring with them wage declines, the ratio of monthly mortgage payments to wage income would rise.

Foreclosed property is generally sold at auction, guaranteeing that there will be a buyer but driving down prices.

Of course, technological advances, like hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) in the shale gas industry, could increase supply and therefore lower prices.

The ECB is committed to 2 inflation in the eurozone as a whole, which implies that lower wage and price increases in southern Europe arithmetically mean higher wage and price increases in northern Europe.

It has been suggested that implementation of this commitment, together with falling prices (resulting from the large supply in 2004), brought about a decline in poppy planting in areas where production has been traditionally high.

The worsening terms of trade have been a major factor contributing to the decline in the current account surplus in recent years.

Italy, for example with a debt to income ratio already exceeding 100 , has been able to manage so far thanks to falling global rates.

That, in turn, merely drove down prices further, leading to more credit rationing, bankruptcies, and bank failures.

A second argument is that higher oil prices are due to lower interest rates and anticipations of higher long term prices.

Women have already been denied access to a diagnostic test, because insurers refuse to pay the company s high prices.

This could be an explicit devaluation or an implicit one due to a price reduction, made possible by the reduction in unit production costs resulting from the extra working time at constant pay.

Though the market shares of Chinese exports seem to have held up quite well, this is attributable to price cutting in foreign markets, which is not sustainable.

In fact, there has been no change in relative prices or depreciation of the US dollar of a magnitude that would augur a permanent shift in trade and spending patterns.

For each crop, Iran calculates the compensation sought for the decreased quality by multiplying the difference between the local and national prices by the quantity produced in 1991.

Prices are high.

Prices went up.

The Price Paradox

Getting Prices Right

Prices

But the prices!

The bubble is inflated further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.

Price discrimination uses market characteristics (such as price elasticity) to adjust prices, whereas yield management uses product characteristics.

Reversing the long term decline in real commodity prices through intervention in markets is unlikely unless very strong political will and commitment are present.

Prices have dropped recently.

(e) Price volatility

How do you set prices?

How are the prices?

Delays at ports have significantly reduced the availability of Australian coal, while reductions in Chinese exports have prompted Asian buyers to turn towards US coal supplies.

Higher real interest rates discourage credit financed purchases by households and businesses. This weakens overall demand, leading to steeper declines in prices.

Thrust

Prices are high these days.

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3530 Price undertakings

These prices are unacceptable.

(a) Price and wage adjustment.

And so I actually raised prices.