{"id":142306,"date":"2025-09-14T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142306\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:46:08","slug":"prices-go-up-and-prices-go-down-depending-on-politics-and-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142306\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices Go Up and Prices Go Down, Depending on Politics and Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know, but even more things you need to think about. I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/ABxd1SABRNI\/david-westin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">David Westin<\/a>, and this week Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told us how politics are getting in the way of economics, and Wharton\u2019s John Zhang took us through the controversial world of dynamic pricing. If you&#8217;re not yet a subscriber, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/wall-street-week?source=wswintro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">sign up here<\/a> for this newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Donald Trump came to office promising lower prices. But Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says \u201ceverything he\u2019s done is the opposite of that,\u201d as the prices of good and services \u2014 from vegetables to housing \u2014 goes up. According to Krugman, who won his Nobel for work on trade patterns, the tariffs are \u201cbad, but not as bad as legend would have it\u201d \u2014 instead \u201cit\u2019s the uncertainty, the capriciousness, that are really\u201d hurting the economy right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,76335,76334,14208,548,46,19952,100,3430,714,1893,6495,4718],"class_list":["post-142306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chang-lin-mao","tag-david-westin","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-liberal","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-wall-street","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}