We may not be able to afford it.

It was priced at 3,995 in 1983.

Yeah, right. I ll settle for the 500,000 model any time.

Of course, every homeowner will feel richer if his property s price goes up.

Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with this device, it's a 40 video game controller.

But if a bunch of speculators decide (rightly or wrongly) that a government s debt is overpriced, they can force down its price, thereby forcing up its yield (the interest rate that the government must pay).

In May 2006, Negroponte told the Red Hat's annual user summit It is a floating price.

Currently, the Territory's currency is the Comptoirs Français du Pacifique franc (CFP), which has an exchange rate fixed to the euro.22 According to President Thémereau, a consensus among the Territory's major political forces is a prerequisite for any decision with regard to the introduction of the euro.

Over the next few years, it may fall to 500 an ounce or rise to 2,000 an ounce.

Initially, the dollar s price rose, but since 2002, it has, for the most part, fallen steadily.

The euro price of oil in May 2007 was 48 euros, or 56 below its current price.

At 60 a barrel, expect the measured long term rate of potential world output growth to slow by roughly 0.3 per year.

It has been shown to increase walking speed, although its high cost (over 1000 dollars a month) limits its usage.

To them, he is the guardian of the Hong Kong dollar, which has been fixed at 7.8 to the US dollar for 26 years.

An Indian company has invented a cheaper Hepatitis B vaccine, bringing down the price from 15 per injection to less than 0.10.

Trade in one electron microscope, at a cost of 400,000, was not sufficiently attractive for the company to attempt to change its trade policy.

Taxes are about 80 of the street price of cigarettes in Toronto, but less than 30 in Beijing or Delhi.

Last year at this time, rice cost 330 a ton. Today it is 730.

Technological innovations have replaced mercury in batteries, dental fillings, and thermometers mercury consumption is down 98 and, by 2000, the price was down 90 .

For example, the price of coffee declined 18 per cent on world markets between 1975 and 1993, but its consumer price increased 240 per cent.

Tickling yourself is as futile as trying to make yourself richer by writing yourself a check or selling yourself your house for twice its current market price.

But American spending habits have undermined the dollar s reputation, with the excess supply of dollars on world markets depressing its price.

Given the inelastic supply of gold, even a small shift in the portfolios of central banks and private investors towards gold increases its price significantly.

This boycotting campaign is considered the most effective one since the late eighties when some high class ladies in El Maadi district in southern Cairo called for boycotting meat when prices rose to 10 EGP per kilogram.

So a marginal investor was willing to pay more than 15 more cash and more than 30 more equities for US Treasury bonds at the end of the month than at the beginning.

A typical Western style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended including the hepB vaccine in routine immunization since 1992, its high price initially hindered its uptake in some developing countries.

The low number of copies made ( 1000), its high price, and its very large physical size made the work accessible practically only to the very elite of society at that time.

It was also observed that where there were such obligations, an abnormally low tender whose price would not allow the minimum wage or social security obligations to be paid could be seen as clearly and objectively low.

Yam remains a hero to many in Hong Kong, including journalists unschooled in international finance. To them, he is the guardian of the Hong Kong dollar, which has been fixed at 7.8 to the US dollar for 26 years.

Tickling yourself is as futile as trying to make yourself richer by writing yourself a check or selling yourself your house for twice its current market price. It isn t much better if you and a friend write each other checks, or sell each other houses.

German exports are not being substantially damaged by the strong euro indeed, German costs are so competitive that exporters are confident they can cope with the euro at 1.50 dollars and even higher.

Rather than relying on cutting a few tons of incredibly overpriced CO2 now, we need to invest in research and development aimed at innovating down the cost of green energy in the long run, so that everyone will switch.

Of course, the rate of increase of the price of oil in euros during the past year was lower than the rate of increase in dollars. The euro price of oil in May 2007 was 48 euros, or 56 below its current price.

If the matter was in my hands, a case would be brought against any company transporting its workers in lorries, and it would be ruled that the owner should experience this transport for a week. (In my dreams!)