It includes impressive graphs, comparing the the price of fancy colored diamonds to the platinum market and the stock market, and includes eye-catching data points, such as the fact that the price of fancy pink diamonds have increased by 443% over the last 10 years.
Nothing fancy here: If the price of something goes up, the BLS simply makes it count for less in the CPI relative to everything else.
Although that is two to three times the cost of a metal detector, it is less than the price of the fancy explosive-sniffing equipment that is the main rival technology being developed for detecting metal-free mines.
This has scared off customers, who have been defecting to fast-food chains such as Dunkin' Donuts or Panera Bread, which sell reasonable coffee for as little as a quarter of the price of a fancy Starbucks brew.
Those fancy names are all derivatives of price action.
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They get their income from dividends, not from the issue of new shares or from a fancy incentive scheme linked to the share price.
They watch endless TV shows about houses and fancy themselves as interior designers, able to raise the price of their home with a new sofa and artful lighting.
"Sticker shock" at the 6% or 7% price tag shouldn't spook governments into promising fancy schemes at summits that they can't actually deliver (for more on this line of argument, see Friday's blog on Chancellor Merkel).
Outside America, deregulation is creating brutal new Crandallesque price wars, where muscle often counts for more than fancy gimmicks.
Sol Price offered deep discounts on products in stores stripped of most fancy accoutrements.
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They could issue them on the share price at any date in history if that had taken their fancy.
While running for president last time, he complained about the price of arugula (rocket) at Whole Foods, a fancy supermarket chain.
Despite all the talk of pricey Napa Cabs and fancy Bordeaux, Mr. Piazza maintained he wasn't only attracted to wines of price and status.
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