Their objections are really false fronts for their anti-market ideology of price setting and government control.
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These oral medicines are currently dispensed in pharmacies and are covered by Medicare Part D, where prices are determined by competition rather than Washington price setting.
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"Looking at the prospects for next year I think it's fair to say I'm more worried than other members that these sort of expectations may get built into the wage bargaining, price setting process, " Mr Weale said.
Of course, in order to use this as an argument that inflation is not a problem, he has to assume that the market has enough wisdom in it to properly gauge future inflation, but then he immediately turns around and forgets the wisdom of the markets when he overrules its price setting mechanism with an unprecedented series of operations, from open market to twist.
The Fed has a single price-setting role -- determining, through interest rates, the price of money itself.
And, precisely because it is such a restricted and secretive market, it is bad at price-setting.
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Apple and four publishers agreed to dismantle a price-setting arrangement in the EU that raised prices for consumers.
On top of that, the department seemingly had blind faith in the accuracy of the assumptions used to build price-setting models.
Margin trading increases the relative contribution of idiots in price-setting.
Part of the consideration in setting price is whether or not there are plans to raise a larger venture capital round.
But although firms can now measure this sort of thing in a more sophisticated way, basic rules of thumb are still the most common way of setting price.
But despite its questionable predictive value, the game of setting price targets is a lucrative one for Wall Street because it makes people want to trade boosting commission revenue.
Although there would be little direct competition for business between operators, their performance--in reducing costs per passenger mile, say--would provide information that a regulator could use when setting price caps.
You are likely to find a buyer more quickly and at a better price if you factor in local market conditions and recent sales before setting an asking price, burnish your home's Internet profile and plan ahead for a home appraisal.
At no stage will Moscow be setting the price or volumes of global gas supplies.
To be sure, setting the price and use of curbside space is an essentially public function.
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Speculators do play an important role in setting the price of oil and other raw materials.
Setting a price for derivatives that have been repeatedly repackaged, overcollateralised and subordinated is difficult in any conditions.
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It means the clinical worth of a drug will be taken into account when setting a price tag.
They were alleged to have co-operated in setting the price of beer sales to licensed premises in the Netherlands, keeping prices artificially high.
During Mr. Zardari's administration, the Supreme Court has played an activist role, making decisions normally reserved for government, including setting the price of basic commodities.
Zimbabwe's fuel shortage was driven in large part by the government setting the price of gas at 20 cents a gallon and refusing to raise it.
But a bad bank faces different problems, the most serious of which is setting a price for assets that both it and the seller can agree on.
Then again, private investors may not be setting the price.
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Initial public offerings and other securities activities have a radically different risk profile than sophisticated buyers and sellers setting the price on a private company in a fully-negotiated transaction.
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Essentially, the government would sell legal admission to work in the U.S., and control the supply of legal immigrants by either setting the price or the supply of visas itself.
But this is not a simple task, particularly when it involves assets with risk exposures far into the future and which are traded so rarely that there is no good market benchmark for setting the price.
All this shows why setting an offering price for shares in an IPO is so tricky.
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