Why are prices on products going up? - Page 3

MUNKO1970 · #21 (**permalink**) 07-14-2004, 01:35 PM

Even LAP DANCES are going up in prices. Boy oh BOY...You know the economy is "stagnant" when lap dances are expensive.

DanM · #22 (**permalink**) 07-18-2004, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MUNKO1970";p=&quot

Even LAP DANCES are going up in prices. Boy oh BOY...You know the economy is "stagnant" when lap dances are expensive.

Maybe we are just becoming a hornier nation?

Schwarzwald · #23 (**permalink**) 07-16-2005, 04:47 PM

...to fund Bush's Imperialist War-Machine.

danarhea · #24 (**permalink**) 11-26-2005, 12:06 AM

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I have heard that the price rise on milk has to do with the Atkins diet. So many people are eating meat, that they are killing the milk cows for the meat. that cuts the supply of milk, raising prices. Any other theories?

I am not saying that dairy cows don't come under the knife, they do (when they no longer produce milk). But let me assure you, a dairy cow is a VERY expensive animal, much more valuable on an individual basis than beef because a dairy cow 1) produces more cows; 2) produces milk. And don't forget, dairy cows don't have the meat on them that beef cattle do AND it isn't high quality meat. A dairy farmer takes VERY GOOD care of producing cows AT LEAST as well as he takes care of his children (hehe). So I don't think this is a viable theory. I am not saying that on an isolated basis it might not happen, but unlikely.

I worked on a dairy farm -- can you tell?

I honestly dont know.

I drank milk from a dairy farm -- can you tell?

heikstheo · #25 (**permalink**) 11-27-2005, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by MUNKO1970";p=&quot

Even LAP DANCES are going up in prices. Boy oh BOY...You know the economy is "stagnant" when lap dances are expensive.

Hey! Showgirls need to make a living, too!

heikstheo · #26 (**permalink**) 12-23-2005, 11:32 AM

Demand is increasing faster than supply is increasing.
Demand is increasing while supply remains the same.
Demand is increasing while supply is decreasing.
Demand is staying the same while supply is decreasing.
Demand is decreasing but supply is decreasing faster.
Yup!

JavaBlack · #27 (**permalink**) 12-23-2005, 12:40 PM

If energy prices go up, everything goes up. Every product imaginable involves a fleet of semis and probably a plane or two.

JohnnyDestroyer · #28 (**permalink**) 04-27-2007, 06:50 PM

Ethanol...

the Corn shortage in Mexico is caused by Ethanol, and its effecting us.

as we switch to ethanol, more grain and land is going under the plow for FUEL...

Burn what we eat? or eat what we burn..

Just look it up, I dont feel like posting links and typing my long-winded opinion on how the US is supporting OPECs PEAK OIL objectives.

Look it up.

Peak Oil

Ethanol Corn Shortage Mexico

OPEC Ethanol

.,....cut, paste, google, learn.

ashleykennedy · #29 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 01:37 PM

When the Cows Come Home

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Jamaica. Sun, sand, rum and reggae. Tourism is Jamaica’s largest foreign exchange earner, underpinning the entire economy of this tropical island.

Professor Michael Witter, Chairman of Jamaican Agricultural Board, who represented the Jamaican Government in the negotiations with the IMF, explains the thinking that has created the current situation: “As a part of that liberalisation [insisted on by the IMF] comes the removal of taxes and the removal of special concessions to local producers. The philosophy behind that was this neoliberal notion that markets know best, and if we remove the protection, our producers would be made more competitive as a result of competition with external, more efficient producers.”

But these producers also turn out to have subsidies, which are mysteriously allowed to remain in place. “In reality we had to buy into what is called a level playing field policy when there was no level playing field.”

Wolfensohn admits the logic of this: “I think everyone believes that a free market is probably in everyone's best interests. But what you cannot have is subsidies and tariffs on one side, and freedom on the other because it just doesn't work.”

http://www.tve.org/lifeonline/index.cfm?aid=1438

Somebody has to pay for the subsidies. Once the international competition is done in by the use of subsidies the only way to make more profit is the home market.

Revolutionary · #30 (**permalink**) 05-21-2007, 09:40 AM

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Your checkbook revolves around oil. When the price of oil goes up, the price of everything else goes down. Similarly when the price of oil goes DOWN... Well you can draw a conclusion.

This does not make any sense. I would really like to see how you explain this better.

Since just about every good is transported by oil how could the price of a good possibly go down if the costs of the product go up. By cost of the product going up I mean they have to spend more money to transport the goods.

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