The theoretical existence of sticky prices means that they have not actually found bargains during this shopping season.

理论上存在的价格粘性意味着在此次购买之季，消费者们讨不到什么便宜。

youdao

I've tried in the past to explain why we should focus on sluggish, sticky prices, not volatile prices like commodities - hence core inflation.

之前我一直在解释为什么该看变动迟缓的黏性价格，而不是象日用商品那样的速动价格——即核心通胀。

youdao

The idea that house prices are "sticky" and do not fall as demand falls should be of great comfort to homeowners.

房价具有“粘性”，并且不会随需求的下降而下降，这一观点的出现会让房主们宽心不少。

youdao

Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.

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Another way of putting it is that a flexible exchange rate makes sticky internal prices and wages flexible to the rest of the world.

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Considered from an investment standpoint, commodities such as oil and gold continue to rise in nominal terms while the dollar falls, but sticky consumer prices remain relatively stable.

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