Sentences with phrase «raising prices»

But the fallacy remains that to control prices one must use unemployment, implicitly slowing the economy to raise unemployment because businesses behave badly raising prices.

Address how to curtail business from raising prices if you ever want to see full employment, rising wages, less inequality.

Core inflation is currently higher than the underlying trend, because the lower dollar is raising the prices of imports.

Coke offset its flat volume by raising prices and selling more of its expensive products.

Plenty of U.S. companies use foreign - made steel and aluminum, so raising prices on those materials means they may end up passing the cost on to us.

Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr. Umesh Khot knew something was very wrong.

Third, given more and better capital, workers could produce more for each hour of labor — a force that would allow companies to pay more without raising prices.

Core inflation is higher than the underlying trend, because a decline in the dollar is raising the prices of imports.

So far, the percent raising prices is not supportive of serious inflation, but a clear trend has been established.

Before he angered customers by raising prices, before he became the butt of Saturday Night Live satire for his Qwikster schemes, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings alienated some of his key executives.

After years of buying up companies then raising the prices of their drugs — a strategy that rapidly amplified Valeant's revenue and stock price — Valeant is now struggling to grow by other means, while dealing with the consequences of its previous actions.

And it seems — based on your commentary, I know you're having some success raising prices or reducing incentives.

When asked why Chipotle would risk hurting its brand by raising prices when it doesn't need to, an executive replied that was among the considerations in deciding whether to proceed with the hike.

Are companies just raising prices or has there been an improvement in same - store sales?

As I've written before, raising prices during a disaster isn't always unethical — sometimes higher prices provide an incentive for others to rush to send resources to disaster - stricken areas, and sometimes higher prices give citizens an incentive to avoid overusing scarce resources.

The more consequential reforms — such as introducing market - based interest rates, reducing excess capacity, subjecting state - owned enterprises to increased competition and financial discipline, enforcing strict environmental laws, and raising prices of natural resources — are expected to depress growth.

The company appears to have benefited from raising prices, even as unit sales have declined.

Gogo has also been raising the prices of surfing the Web in the skies, betting that customers will pay almost anything for such a privilege.

Though this may sound like financial suicide during economic hard times, Cardone insists that raising prices — and not offering discounts — is the best way to survive.

In a counterintuitive move, Ingrassio decided to boost profits and ease production pressures by raising prices for the first time in his business's history.

The deflationary economic climate makes it hard to compensate by raising prices.

On the other hand, raising prices forces a company to do a better job of providing value — and explaining to customers what that value is.

Raising prices on shipping packages is seen as one way to address this problem.

But it's not only eateries that seem to be raising prices as a response to the additional expenses.

«But raising prices is always a risky business when you're facing strong competition, especially on price.»

Meanwhile, Lululemon is angering customers (again) by raising prices on some of its products.

Doug Pelletier worries that less access to H - 1Bs means raising prices at Trifecta Technologies, his custom software business, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with revenue between $ 6 million and $ 7 million.

But there are risks to raising prices, particularly when your customers are going through tough financial times.

I know that Shkreli and Valeant and Turing are the extreme end, but there are those who are at the other end are still raising prices that have no relationship to R&D and have no relationship to a reasonable return to investors.

«It turns out 4 to 5 percent is enough of a discount for shoppers,» CEO Marc Lore said, discussing the results of tests the company ran over the past few weeks by raising the prices of some products.

Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

To the surprise of virtually no one, Netflix is raising prices.

Clark soon felt the new company was spread too thin and subsequently made poor decisions for Kodiak Cakes, including raising prices.

With its mission accomplished, it's raising prices.

Even if Amazon is raising prices, the suggestion that it has a monopoly in either print or e-books is absurd.

A separate index by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing, suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising prices for a broad range of goods.

Valeant CEO Joe Papa told attendees of Wells Fargo's healthcare conference earlier this month that the company would start raising prices toward the end of the year.

But inflation remains distant from the BOJ's 2 percent target as companies hold off on raising prices and wages, citing uncertainty over the economic outlook.

They also said that they would lower the price of two heart medications, Nitropress and Isuprel, around 30 % (that's after raising the prices of the drugs 525 % and 212 %, respectively).

Today the New York Times argues that Amazon is a new kind of conglomerate, noting that it's not in danger of anti-trust regulation because it isn't exploiting its dominance by raising prices:

«Valeant has been appropriately criticized for substantially raising the prices of certain off - patent prescription drugs suddenly and without apparent justification,» said Ackman in his opening statement.

Valeant has been at the center of a political firestorm over prescription medication costs and pharmaceutical companies, which depend more on acquiring or licensing existing therapies (and then raising their prices) rather than fueling R&D into new drugs.

The extra money has to come from somewhere, whether lowering other costs, raising prices, or reducing profit expectations.

By raising prices and adding a more expensive model, Apple can generate a big jump in revenue even if it sells the same number of phones.

Here's why you should consider raising your prices today, no matter what business you are in.

But what about raising the prices to farmers, maintaining the prices to consumers and taking less profit?

If you have a low success rate with your clients, and you don't think it's your product or process, try raising your prices.

A rising CAC means you'll need to start cutting costs or raising prices — or do a better job in marketing and sales.

The company won't raise its prices to pay for the switch; instead, it's delaying an upgrade of its security camera system.