A year ago, 1 million euros would have fetched a one-bedroom duplex on Central Park West; this year it will buy you a two-bedroom, 1,400-square-foot pad on Park Avenue.
A year ago, 1 million euros would have fetched a tiny one-bedroom flat near London's Trafalgar Square, but at this point in 2009, it'll get you a 1,400-square-foot 1,400-square-foot 1,400-square-foot hotbed Hampstead.
The asking price of $439,000 was a sharp discount to the $525,000 it might have fetched a few years ago.
Fourteen watercolours and drawings by Adolf Hitler have fetched a total of €391,000 (£280,000) at a controversial auction in Nuremberg.
"I have brought upstairs to you!" Simba announced 10 minutes later, having fetched a half-dozen cocktail frocks from above, gallantly underestimating my size.
Lawyers for these funds have questioned whether Chrysler could have fetched a better deal than the Fiat transaction or through a liquidation.
At the beginning of the century "The Dead Heart" would have fetched a great price, and a far greater if it were new to-day.
While the company spoke with a number of suitors in addition to Energy Transfer and Williams, it did not run a formal auction that could have fetched a higher initial price.
He was angry with her because she had fetched a member of staff to tell him and his friends to be quiet during a screening of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince at a nearby cinema.
