How then could he not see a problem with all-time highs in housing prices across the country, an unprecedented spread between housing prices and rental value, and rates of growth not seen in decades?
But one event is beating them all in resale prices: the three-day extravaganza in Austin, Texas, known as the Austin City Limits Festival, where bands of all stripes perform outdoors in mid-September.
In 2011, all the big-six energy suppliers raised their prices, in some cases twice.
Weather issues in Brazil, the largest producer, coupled with higher demand in India caused global sugar prices to rise to an all-time high in February 2010 nearly 30 cents per pound.
Mr Joshi says the four previous periods of triple strength since 1980 were all followed by falls in Treasury-bond prices.
In reality, the slump in the rouble, which has fallen 56% against the dollar since August 15th, and the resulting collapse in government-bond prices have made these and almost all other commercial banks in Russia insolvent.
For consumers, the recent sharp rise in petrol prices which hit an all-time high this week is, in effect, an increased tax burden.
Prices for food commodities are at all-time highs, prompting the firm to increase prices twice in the past year.
Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
"We're not trying to predict which markets will all of a sudden have double-digit growth in home prices again, " says Wizner.
With all the attention that the seven-year bull run in oil prices (and the recent decline) has gotten, you could be forgiven for guessing a high number.
These include the taxes that companies pay on their profits, along with workers' Social Security taxes, property taxes, utility taxes, corporate excise taxes, among others--all passed along to you in the form of higher prices.
As banks, house prices and stockmarkets all tumbled in mid-September, news that Britain's government had brokered a rescue of its biggest mortgage lender, troubled HBOS, by the relatively sturdy Lloyds TSB revived spirits no end.
Long story short, hosting the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas was truly a novelty and the prices reflected this.
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Industrial production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment were all up in November, while new home prices rose in 53 out of 70 major cities in China in November, from the previous month.
While it is encouraging to see the index stabilizing after it recorded eight consecutive months of gains to February, food prices remain extremely high and, amid a general wave of inflation around the globe, continue to pose a threat to any sort of economic recovery. (Read Global Food Prices Hit All-Time High As Violence Erupts In Yemen).
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That all changed in 2004-2005, when transportation costs suddenly rocketed as oil prices blasted off to all-time highs.
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"The increase in the price of diesel, in particular, will have a cascading effect on all-round prices as the transportation costs will rise sharply, " a statement said.
But by this gauge, the currencies of virtually all low-income countries are undervalued, since prices are generally lower in these countries than in rich ones (see right-hand chart, above).
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Home prices are jumping at double-digit rates in all the usual places like Arizona and Florida.
Best of all, the mini-mills have a natural hedge against a downturn in steel prices, because the price of scrap steel, their input, rises and falls with their finished product.
"In the coming year we will see another challenge which Brown, Cameron and Clegg have all seen fit to ignore - the very strong likelihood of vast increases in consumer prices, " he said.
This would be the case if energy companies sold their products to customers in another galaxy where somebody else bore all the costs of high-energy prices.
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The sharp rally to consecutive all-time nominal highs for gold prices on the back of concerns over problems in the European Union banks and dismal economic data this week in the U.S. has participants in the weekly Kitco News Gold Survey generally looking for higher prices.
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All major copper mining companies are currently ramping up production to cash-in on rising copper prices.
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Again, the best outcome of all of this would be better credits and truer usually lower prices on the much-in-play assets.
Prices rose in all of the New York metals during the week-long period covered by the most recent CFTC report.
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Prices skidded in all of the New York metals during the week-long period covered by the most recent CFTC report.
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The prices of tickets, concessions and sponsorship deals all grew in 2009--partly because of the string of new expensive stadiums that have popped up in the last few years.
As a last resort, the banking watchdog hopes to force financial-services firms to value all bonds they hold at market prices from July, in the hope this will encourage them to start trading them more.
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