He also thinks the company and its rivals should benefit significantly from being able to pass on the increasing cost of rubber and other raw materials because their prices were, in fact, stabilizing.
According to Huckabee's reckoning, his plan will promote capital investment in the U.S. and make domestic goods cheaper and more competitive overseas because their prices will no longer be inflated by the payment of corporate taxes.
Stocks and bonds both do poorly at such a time--bonds because their prices go down as inflation forces up interest rates, and stocks because corporations have a hard time keeping their selling prices ahead of rising input costs.
Jointly, they end up worse off, because their higher prices suppress demand too much.
The Russian malls were appealing partly because of their prices.
They claim the signatories collectively lost market share to new entrants because they raised their prices.
Bond investors complain that they already suffer in financial crises because the prices of their assets plummet.
Chinese investors can reason that they have little choice but to accept the volatility and the high prices because their alternatives are so limited.
Both of these businesses are highly profitable because their customers are willing to pay premium prices because of the benefits they expect to receive.
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It can keep their wages and prices down because it is hard for them to sell their services elsewhere.
Western buyers have been accused of turning a blind eye in the past, because of their interest in holding prices down.
Most doctors and hospitals would rather not post their prices, because then patients would shop around, placing pressure on their incomes.
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Consumers are dangerously exposed to a big fall in house prices because of their reckless borrowing over the past few years.
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Yuan appreciation not only bolsters the buying power of Chinese consumers, but it makes Chinese-based producers and assemblers more competitive because the relative prices of their imported inputs fall, reducing their costs of production.
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The data indicate that manufacturer's profit margins are under pressure because the prices they paid for their raw materials rose more quickly than output prices.
Supermarkets have helped push down prices principally because of their scale.
This is because energy prices have fallen off their blistering highs during the spring and summer of 2007 and there's a worldwide drop in demand resulting from the global economic slowdown.
In 2008, for example, the European Central Bank raised interest rates just months before the financial crisis because of rising commodity prices and their likely effect on inflation, even though the European economy was already weakening sharply.
Industry consultant Adam Levin believes that because high gas prices have worked their way into the economy over the past months, they figure to have more of a negative effect on spending than they did a year ago.
While the bigger, sophisticated salons and supermarkets snubbed his products, they were very popular with street side local hairdressers because of their availability and significantly lower prices in comparison to the products on the shelves of the big retail outlets.
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Public companies typically want to give as much information as possible to any investor who may wish to put money into them, because cumulatively this would increase their share prices and cut their costs of capital - which makes it cheaper for the companies themselves to invest and grow.
And so even the neighbors who are left who are in foreclosure, they are finding that they have a hard time selling their homes for the prices that they need to satisfy their mortgages because the housing market has headed south so badly.
Producers in Brazil rejected protection, because Brazilian tariffs would have raised their own prices.
Almost half had either lost some or all of the deposit they paid on their first property because of falling house prices.
Because most American Bitcoin vendors automatically adjust their prices to the current dollar-Bitcoin exchange rate, Bitcoin-denominated prices would quickly fall to reflect the new, higher Bitcoin price.
Their share prices, they say, have been savaged just because investors are, irrationally, redirecting their capital into glamorous technology and Internet firms (see article).
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Regulators think that some high-frequency traders switched off their programs when prices began to spiral, fearful that their trades would be cancelled because of the severity of the declines.
Because of the high prices paid to build their portfolios and the slow rate of realizations to date, these partners have not yet made much money and may not earn a carry.
Natural gas prices will reverse their recent decline because of growing long-term demand and slowing production growth due to aging fields.
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