But the BoJ does not give the impression it is particularly concerned about prices.
Residents of Kunming, like Chinese in other cities, have been fretting a lot about prices lately.
The Great Depression dealt a near-fatal blow to such common-sense thinking about prices and the price level.
Similar concerns about prices at the pumps have led to investigations from regulators in Germany, Spain and Australia.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, posts very detailed information about prices on the hospital's Web site.
If you go to a hospital and ask about prices, the staff's immediate reaction is that you must be uninsured.
Not only was it not proprietary or unique in any way, but it was wholly disconnected from the blather about prices.
"Complaints about prices are as endemic as complaints about taxi fares, subway service and strollers on the Upper West Side, " he said.
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Today if you question a hospital or physician about prices, they'll look at you like you're some kind of nut or, even worse, someone who's uninsured.
With waves of blockbuster drugs going off patent, and problems over getting their successors to market, tough questions about prices are the last thing drug companies want.
Or take Amazon.com, whose continuing success depends partly on a host of savvy merchandising decisions, including decisions about prices, shipping discounts and targeted email notices about new offerings.
It could have created new financing and lay-away policies that communicated value, and used social media to create meaningful communities of consumers who wanted to track and participate in conversations about prices.
All Americans, rich and poor, want more autonomy and choice, and government can facilitate that by committing to reducing the barriers to competition and forcing information transparency about prices and quality of care.
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If you care about the environment, if you care about gas prices, if you care about where our soldiers and navy may serve next, if you want the U.S. to remain strong and dominant in the world, look to the north this summer.
The Web is ultimately not about stock prices that can defy gravity or about the end of boom-and-bust cycles.
In his book The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford talks about how prices in competitive markets tell the truth about the costs and benefits of different courses of action.
He adds that his study finds that if the Amazon sales tax advantage goes away, Amazon Prime members would pay a modest premium to Wal-Mart store prices and about the same prices as Target customers.
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Other polls show Americans growing more dejected about the economy and livid about gas prices.
So who is right about house prices, Makin or the Americans who've bid them up?
About half of respondents described themselves as being somewhat worried about rising prices at the pump.
Reid was also bombarded with questions by reporters about gasoline prices and the debt ceiling vote.
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And yet most bosses still worry more about their costs than about the prices they charge.
Everyone's complaining about escalating prices for airline tickets and the long lines for check-ins.
And while the cards are indeed physically very small, there's nothing small about their prices.
And, on both projects, planners were too optimistic about the prices that contractors would charge.
The company has kept mum about upgrade prices, but they aren't likely to drop.
They chat with the gallery owners and their staff and often do not even ask about the prices.
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States are up in arms about drug prices because they are increasingly out of pocket from covering them.
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