Unless there is a sharp price drop, I estimate we will spend at least $1,000 more this winter.
Short of outright collapse, however, even a sharp price drop need not burst the biotech bubble.
It added that manufacturing costs continued to fall at a sharp pace during December, due to declines in the prices of oil and other commodities.
In fact, if you look at a graph, the really sharp price rises Bitcoin experienced during the heights of December's Cryptomania, you'll see that it all started around the $7500 price.
Staples Chief Executive Thomas Stemberg Thomas Stemberg and other top executives in the company will take home a nice profit when Staples repurchases the shares of Staples.com at a sharp premium from its price during the height of the Internet craze.
Producers of any commodity are at the mercy of sharp price swings.
"We reset the prices at a sharp discount, and the units are flying off the shelves," said Gary Barnett, the president of the Extell Development Company, the New York-based developer of 1060 Brickell, which was completed last year.
From the latter part of 2000 into the first part of 2002, we had sharp price declines in semiconductors at a rate of about 5percentto7percentcent a year.
There are sharp price drops at the high end of the market, she said, so houses that are not priced accordingly are simply not selling.
Chocolate lovers, meat eaters and fruit and sandwich consumers, they too will be hit with sharp price increases at the cash registers.
