Greece, which is heavily in debt to foreigners, has a high cost of borrowing (see chart 2).
There, most of the overall burden will come from the cost of educating children (chart 5, bottom panel).
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The survey compares the prices of goods and services typically consumed by the families of executives being sent overseas. (Importantly, however, it does not include the cost of accommodation.) The chart shows local costs as a percentage of those of living in New York.
Even poor countries had a better compliance rate, suggesting the problem in the rich world is not cost but unwillingness to follow the rules (see chart).
With the exception of CBeebies, a channel for young children, all of the new digital TV offerings cost more per user than BBC One (see chart below).
The problem is this: Politicians are always falling all over themselves to hand out goodies to families, while looking for ways to minimize the cost by imposing quirky limits and phaseouts, ( see chart).
The cost of living, in particular the cost of housing, is also much higher in London (see chart).
The chart line is a near-perfect inverse of the plunging cost of crude.
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of KSS, versus WMT and COST.
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UEFA, the European football authority, the cost of the players now averages 125% of club revenues (see chart 1).
But the output of goods less exposed to low-cost competition, such as cars and chemicals, has grown (see chart).
Sarah Kliff had a nice follow-on piece in the Washington Post that elaborates on my chart and some possible explanations for why consumers are so much less cost conscious in health care.
For example, Santander has a cost-to-income ratio of 45%, the lowest among big international banks (see chart).
The chart below shows the current dividend of each of the stocks, as well as their respective Fiscal Cliff Cost.
As giant advertisers find the cost of television harder and harder to justify their outlays will eventually take the kind of cliff dive observed in the chart (above) for newspaper advertising.
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