There was the other burgeoning receiver, Antonio Brown, being signed to a new six-year contract before his value escalated further.
Jeter's value escalated since the Yankees walked away from a seven-year, $118.5 million agreement last year, and it would presumably rise if he became a free agent.
The condominiums were followed by waves of single-family houses that kept increasing in size as the population grew and land values escalated.
But over the last five years, art values escalated to the point where prices had to pass the $80 million mark to create sticker shock.
For decades landowners have enjoyed an unearned windfall as land values escalated largely through public investment in roads, utilities, schools and so forth.
At the beginning of this period, values escalated rapidly in the bubble, fueled by financial speculation, subprime lending and an abiding national faith in homeownership as a sure-fire source of wealth.
Property values escalated so rapidly that the investor, Steven C. Witkoff, was able to sell the 29-story tower at 100 Wall Street last October for $58.5 million, or $128 a square foot, only five months after buying it for $37 million, or $81 a square foot.
She often helped artists by buying their work when nobody else would; and when she needed to, she paid her gallery's expenses through the sale of pieces she'd acquired decades before, their value having escalated astronomically.
If this is Mr. Goldin's best argument for investing billions of dollars in a station of dubious value and escalating cost, the project does not deserve any further support from Congress.
Yet, having converted £33m in loans into equity last year to demonstrate the family's continued financial commitment, the owner is well aware that the club's value has escalated over recent years, and saw Fulham bought by Shahid Khan for £150m last year.
The broader changes in the Middle East help to explain why a weakened Hamas might see a strategic value in escalating its conflict with Israel.
