But far from being an opportunistic asset grab, it was arranged in 2007 at boom-time prices.
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In short, while time prices for other goods and services had shrunk to less than one quarter of their 1958 levels, time prices for health care had more than quadrupled!
The United States last suffered serious deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s but Fed policymakers worry more about the threat of deflation any time prices go lower than 2 percent.
For example, the International Securities Market Association, based in Switzerland, announced in January that it would develop a system to offer real-time prices for Eurobonds and internationally traded government bonds by the second quarter of 1999.
The price of steel, lumber, concrete, health insurance, everything - I've been buying and selling in this location since 1989, and I have never seen in a shorter period of time prices on everything across the board go up at the way that they're going up right now.
Most remarkable of all, property prices in many parts of South Central have been rising throughout the 1990s, at a time when prices in chic areas like Bel Air have been falling.
The company held back on acquisitions in 2010 and 2011 as Smallwood said the valuations of projects were simply too high at that time with silver prices reaching all time highs.
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They sure are taking their time reducing prices, however, now that commodity prices are down dramatically.
Each time oil prices more than tripled, followed by a downturn in the world economy.
According to some economists, every time oil prices rise by 10 percent, on average 150, 000 Americans lose their jobs.
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So the farm bill comes at a time - the debate over the farm bill comes at a time where prices are up.
Still, the retailer earlier this year said it had ordered Spring 2012 merchandise at a time cotton prices were still higher on a year-over-year basis.
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Mortgage delinquencies and defaults are rising, and at the same time sales prices in some of the hottest markets have leveled off or are in decline.
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Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
And so the fact that every time gas prices went up, it was -- they were obviously in secular decline in share, but it accentuated their share loss.
Excess inventory is the enemy of home-builders, as it means adding to the supply (their business) would only serve to further misalign supply and demand, in time lowering prices.
This sudden surge in exports of oil distillates, the primary source for motor diesel fuel consumed in the U.S., occurred at the same time diesel prices hit record highs.
Only in 2015 do these forecasters see a modest improvement, by which time house prices, in real terms and in common with England and Wales, will have fallen by a fifth in seven years.
According to some estimates, by the time house prices have bottomed out, as many as 20 million households will be upside down on their mortgages, meaning the amount owed on their mortgage exceeds the value of the house.
Stocks and bonds both do poorly at such a time--bonds because their prices go down as inflation forces up interest rates, and stocks because corporations have a hard time keeping their selling prices ahead of rising input costs.
Exports have been banned to keep sugar prices low in India at a time when sugar prices were rising in the futures market.
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There, sellers take advantage of less savvy consumers by quoting them ludicrously inflated prices, forcing potential buyers to waste time researching standard prices before going to the market.
In short, investors are dealing with a new set of complex securities, based on loans to a new type of borrower, where the loan terms and conditions may not be clear and at a time when house prices are falling nationally for the first time in living memory.
But house prices rising 13 percent in, say Boston, might happen at the same time that house prices are falling by 5 percent in, say, Atlanta (that is not a forecast, by-the-way).
The one time in which home prices were falling was a time when mortgage rates were also falling.
Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.
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