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Blog10/15/2007Justin M. Ptak

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 jointly to Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota, Eric S. Maskin,...

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The New York Times Management: Not as Smart as You

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Blog09/19/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

So the Times has stopped charging for most of its web content. The reason? "Many more readers started coming to...

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Starbucks: Are Fu-Fu Prices Too High?

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Blog08/01/2007Karen De Coster

Starbucks just raised prices this past winter. And now again?

I have wondered if...

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Prices are up! Or Down! Depending...

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Blog07/18/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

The CPI release this month features its usual aggregation and concludes that prices are rising 5% per annum. But take a look at specifics. If your main thing is driving around and burning fossil fuels, your compounded annual rate of price...

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Gouging you and me

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Blog06/13/2007Gary Galles

In May, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could lead to fines as high as $3 million per day for gasoline price gouging, which it defined as charging a price that "grossly exceeds the average price offered for sale by that person during the 30 days prior" or "grossly exceeds the...

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Is the Stock Market Rising?

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Blog05/30/2007Robert Blumen

I rather like this chart from the New York Times showing the value of the S&P 500 Index in the dollar, three foreign currencies, gold, houses, oil and corn....

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Why High Gas Prices?

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Blog05/24/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

I'm intrigued by this NYT explanation: "a surprising culprit: uncertainty created by the government's push to increase the supply of biofuels like ethanol in coming years. In his State of the Union address...

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Gas Station forced to raise prices

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Blog05/09/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

Who says we don't have price control? "Gas station owner told to raise prices" (Thanks CJ)

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Who to Believe: Labor or the house spouse?

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Blog03/18/2007Jim Fedako

According to the Associated Press, "The Labor Department reported Friday that the Consumer Price Index rose by 0.4 percent last month, double the January increase, as energy prices...

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The Greens Reduce Alcohol Consumption, Too?

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Blog02/26/2007Antoin E. Murphy

My friend Pete tipped me off to this article, which explains that the growing popularity of biofuel production is driving up beer prices. Unfortunately, this "...