The way to do this is to measure not the change in price in constant dollars but the change in price compared to average earnings.
No, the idea is to reduce the duty being paid while leaving the price constant.
Compare these to traditional stalwarts like GE, Wal-Mart and Cisco, which struggle even to hold their share price constant.
Moreover, the price of a letter remained constant in nominal terms, representing a big price reduction in real terms.
Executives in Round Rock boast about holding the operating margin almost constant amid a vicious price war.
With shipment numbers staying constant and the market price going down, both revenues and margins will take a hit.
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Every twelve to eighteen months, the amount of computing power on a semiconductor doubles, even as price holds constant.
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During the forecast period, we expect the margins from .com and .net registry business to stay constant as the permitted price hikes kick-in.
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To re-value the indicators of use of GDP at constant prices, relevant price indices (consumer price index, capital investments price index, etc.) and physical indicators were applied.
Let's go back to Econ 101: When you constrict the supply of an item and have constant or increasing demand, price must increase.
Take Apple 's iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
Many analysts have attempted to value gold in other ways, such as by assuming a constant ratio between the gold price and consumer prices, personal incomes, the amount of U.S. dollars in circulation or the value of the world's financial assets.
Take Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
With a dollar of constant, unchanging value, true price relationships would clarify.
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So far the price of hay is constant, but for farmers who have lost their supplies, replacing it is going to be costly.
The constant changes make it impossible to price imports and exports.
Unfortunately, the price of oil in constant dollars is close to what it was in the car-happy 1950s, and prices are likely to keep falling.
Investors sold off NetFlix after its earnings report today, down 10% on the market open, because Management said that it expects subscriber levels to stay constant in the coming quarter when price increases take effect.
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All other industrial demands have remained essential constant over the same period yet the price has tripled during the same period.
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With a Hurst Constant below 0.50, its price moves are characterized by periods of low volatility followed by periods of high volatility followed by periods of low volatility, etc.
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At the more dubious end of the scale is NAV again, with an index of 2.5 years, pretty depressing given that it would take today's buyer of the units at least six years to recover the purchase price (assuming the monthly distribution stays constant).
"To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Federal Reserve's holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities, " the FOMC says, adding it will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.
Even the possibility of a big bonus comes with a price: nonexistent job security and near-constant stress.
Gold is a great predictor of our economic health because as the most constant, objective measure of value in existence, its price is the single best measure of the value of the most important price in the world: the U.S. dollar.
The constant onslaught of cash into these markets causes a frenzy in the price of the futures contracts and drags the spot prices ever upward.
You can quibble with the numbers, if you want, or point out that medical school costs more than law school, but the price of your education and preparation is going to be more or less constant.
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No legislator has ever overturned the law of demand, which says that when the price of labor rises, the quantity demanded will fall (assuming other things are constant).
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In the case of labor, this means as the price of labor (the wage rate) increases, the number of jobs will decrease, other things constant.
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