He couldn't afford to maintain his plantation in the early 2000s when prices dropped.

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When oil prices dropped in the 1980s, the region suffered through stagnant growth.

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But those homeowners were caught in the game when housing prices dropped dramatically and houses could no longer be flipped.

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When they expired, prices dropped down past 2009 lows in response during fall and winter.

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Yet farm values have held up much better than they did in the 1930s or even in the 1980s, when prices fell by around a third in real terms as commodity prices dropped and the Federal Reserve used high interest rates to squeeze inflation out of the system.

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When the renewals have come up on these contracts, the prices paid have dropped since the duopoly became a monopoly.

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