Then there's oil, and after the wild fluctuations in 2008, the setting of the price per barrel also came under scrutiny.
Speculators do play an important role in setting the price of oil and other raw materials.
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 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.
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.
Their objections are really false fronts for their anti-market ideology of price setting and government control.
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This would have the salutary effect of setting a market price for this garbage, forcing the banks to mark their retained mortgages to market (so far they've marked down the dodgy securities).
The challenges in the sale of the business involve setting and agreeing to the price and terms of the sale, and of course selecting and agreeing on a buyer.
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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.
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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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.
Part of the consideration in setting price is whether or not there are plans to raise a larger venture capital round.
The Fed has a single price-setting role -- determining, through interest rates, the price of money itself.
Margin trading increases the relative contribution of idiots in price-setting.
MSPs passed The Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Act 2012 in May 2012, setting a 50p minimum unit price as part of an effort to tackle alcohol misuse.
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The bill also includes a minimum price for carbon emissions and the setting of feed-in tariffs for individual consumers who are able to generate their own renewable energy supplies.
On top of that, the department seemingly had blind faith in the accuracy of the assumptions used to build price-setting models.
It could have signed up to Fairtrade, an international social movement that promotes the payment of above-market prices to producers of agricultural commodities in developing countries by setting a floor price, with an additional premium that goes to farmers for reinvestment and social projects.
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It means the clinical worth of a drug will be taken into account when setting a price tag.
"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.
Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.
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Among them was Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch, who made his name last year by setting what seemed an impossibly ambitious share-price target for the firm, and was promptly proved right.
The Chinese case follows U.S. and European Union investigation into LCD price-fixing by several Asian companies between 2001 and 2006, when executives were accused of setting up an industry cartel to drive up prices.
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And he criticised those firms which kept prices high for millions of existing customers while offering cut-price deals online to attract new business and deter potential competitors from setting up.
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