A second argument is that higher oil prices are due to lower interest rates and anticipations of higher long term prices.

Higher prices can mean higher incomes for them.

With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.

Rich country consumers are responding to higher energy prices, and it helps.

They think that arguments implying that home prices are higher in one country than another are also arguments that the rate of increase in those prices should be higher there.

For consumers, the costs are in terms of higher prices and less variety.

Of course, if higher prices are due to fundamentals, oil markets are working as they should.

Higher oil prices are here to stay, says the American economic forecaster Allen Sinai.

If there is a perception that prices will be higher in the future, then prices will tend to be higher today.

The poor are, however, increasingly urban poor, and for them higher food prices are entirely bad news.

45. Unit prices were higher than budgeted for.

43. Unit prices were higher than budgeted for.

One argument that economists use is that higher prices are due to the weak dollar.

As a result, higher commodity prices are eating into fiscal cushions rather than curtailing demand.

The euro is at record levels, oil prices are surging and interest rates are expected to go higher.

Many worry that non food prices may rise higher.

The result is higher prices and no job creation.

If, for example, house prices are routinely described as climbing and climbing, higher and higher, people might naturally assume that that rise is unstoppable.

If, for example, house prices are routinely described as climbing and climbing, higher and higher, people might naturally assume that that rise is unstoppable.

Higher prices fuel higher growth in these countries, which, accompanied by a population boom, leads to higher domestic energy consumption.

Recent inflation in many countries has been the result of higher commodity prices, especially fuel and food prices.

With higher interest rates depressing housing prices, the game is over.

The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.

Because of the improved quality, we could ask for higher prices.

A second argument is that higher oil prices are due to lower interest rates and anticipations of higher long term prices. That supposedly reduced supply by encouraging producers to store oil in the ground and pump it later.

They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.

And low income economies are suffering from higher food and fuel prices, which feature heavily in households consumption baskets.

Consumers who are forced to pay higher prices for energy will have less money to spend on other things.

Higher home prices in a given country may tend to create conditions for falling home prices there in the future.

While higher world farm prices help producers, they hurt urban households in developing countries, many of which are also poor.

All of this takes time, but, as it occurs, it mitigates the negative impact the demand and supply curves shift in response to higher prices (or to anticipation of higher prices).

Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.

Higher oil prices have increased the government revenue of many oil exporting countries but a number of oil importing countries have seen their deficits increase, particularly those developing countries that are providing government subsidies to alleviate the impact of higher oil prices.

OPEC might be correct to blame American policies and speculators for higher prices.

NEW YORK The world economy is being battered by sharply higher energy prices.

Obviously, the recent increases in food prices are likely to drive the number of people vulnerable to food stress even higher.

But, there are reasons to believe that higher interest rates, even though expected, can have a negative impact on home prices.

An even more troublesome fallacy is that people tend to confuse price levels with rates of price change. They think that arguments implying that home prices are higher in one country than another are also arguments that the rate of increase in those prices should be higher there.

It has also meant that Cuba has had to seek imports from new markets where the parameters and specifications are different and prices are higher than the traditional prices for goods manufactured by United States technologies.

As a result, contracting authorities might face higher prices and the members of the cartel will enjoy profits above the competitive prices.

Prices are high.

Indeed, according to Sinai, higher oil prices are the biggest risk...since the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000 2001.

Gazprom has pursued its most public fight with Ukraine, insisting on prices that are 50 higher than what its EU customers pay.

Around the world, governments are taking greater control of resources and imposing policies that hamper global production and ultimately force prices higher.