Amazon is also going to control pricing, with developers allowed to set a "list price" that Amazon will riff on, adjusting the price based on magical algorithms.

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Similarly, Google quietly doubled the storage space for the Nexus 7 without adjusting the price.

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Some former presidents make a killing on speeches and some financiers just tell the world what they like or hate and the world obliges by adjusting the price accordingly.

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American statisticians have adopted techniques for adjusting for quality improvements when calculating price deflators for computers.

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"The situation in Greece has taken a turn for the worse, with the economy increasingly adjusting through recession and related wage-price channels, rather than through structural reform-driven increases in productivity".

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All possible costs associated with buying and renting were incorporated into the analysis, including down payment, mortgage and rental payments, transaction costs, property taxes, utilities, maintenance costs, tax deductions and opportunity costs, while adjusting for inflation and forecasted home value and rental price appreciation.

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After adjusting--minutely--for climate change, Weatherbill names a price and acts as the underwriter.

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After adjusting for inflation, Mr Lewis points out, that would only take the price back to its average level since 1972.

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To recap the methodology, the Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor track asking home prices and rents on a monthly basis, adjusting for the changing composition of listed homes, including foreclosures provided by RealtyTrac.

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