He also had a deft appreciation of the mischievous power of gesture politics, sending "humanitarian aid" in the form of discounted fuel to one of the most deprived areas of New York's Bronx in 2005, and signing a gas deal with London in 2007 that funded cut-price bus fares for a quarter of a million of the British capital's poorest residents.
What he has never said, and what I attempted, I thought, to appropriately mock yesterday, was the idea that there are magic solutions, that you can put forward a proposal to cut the price at the pump in half on a piece of paper with a couple of magic beans.
Eavesdrop on a bunch of Britons (whom Egyptians generally consider to be the meanest spenders of all) landing up in Luxor in reply to a cut-price advertisement.
And now Brussels is proposing a 20% reduction in the price for cereals, after a 30% cut just six years ago.
Barnes and Noble may well be forced into a steep price cut of its ebooks in coming weeks.
He said that the Nokia Lumia 822, which runs Microsoft's smartphone operating system, garnered 17% of sales at his stores the weekend after Christmas, thanks in part to a price cut.
It has done nothing to dispel the idea that if Wall Street clamours loudly enough for a rate cut and futures markets price one in with any degree of certainty the Fed will oblige.
It urged the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut production quotas in February for fear of a price crash this spring.
Although the head of Economics at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Ignazio Visco, believes that there is room for a cut in rates in the eurozone, the ECB is apparently more worried about the lagging effects of a high oil price and the weakness of the euro which pushed up prices last year.
Despite Thompson's suggestion, price-indexing would lead to a significant cut in promised benefits for future retirees.
The marketing group Footfall suggested pre-Christmas sales were down 7% on last year, but recovered to show a strong jump in sales shopping as canny shoppers waited for cut-price offers.
Earlier this year, lower energy prices seemed to offer some prospect of relief: a fall in the petrol price is the equivalent of a tax cut for Western consumers.
Zillow analyzed data on actual sales prices compared to asking prices, the number of days listings spent on Zillow and the percentage of homes on the market with a price cut, and ranked the 30 largest metro areas in the country to determine whether buyers or sellers have more negotiating power in a given market.
Ukraine agreed to almost double what it pays for its neighbour's gas after a bitter price dispute which saw Russia cut off supplies for three days in January.
The discussions with the Treasury have become bogged down over the precise price tag which will be set in terms of a cut in Northern Ireland's block grant.
Now, the company apparently plans to cut the price as well, by introducing a budget Leaf next year in a bid to come up with a more palatable sticker price.
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He had already sold 22% of his company to British Telecom, and the debt load knocked two thirds off his stock price in the next two years, as a recession cut into revenue growth.
Moving all those trades, now conducted mostly by phone between dealers and their customers, to a transparent exchange would cut into margins: If everyone can see price quotes in real time, the spread between the bids and offers will narrow.
In January 2006, Moscow cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine during a price dispute.
The government will rely more on public investment to boost growth and is less likely to cut interest rates further in the rest of 2012, to avoid a resurgence of a property price bubble.
Oil-Dri Corp. ( ODC) showed up in the results of my value screening strategy. (The strategy is highlighted in the July AAII Journal First Cut column.) ODC trades at a price-earnings ratio of 17.0 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.7.
Along with a widely expanded Amazon lineup that includes multiple Kindle Fire HD models and a price-cut tweak to the original Fire, two of the largest players in the mobile world now have top-to-bottom device businesses built around selling at break-even prices and recouping their money through content.
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On Sunday, Russia cut off gas to Ukraine, in response to Kiev's refusal to accept a fourfold price increase imposed in violation of an existing contract.
But core inflation--a measure closely watched by the Reserve Bank of India--eased to its lowest in about three years, reassuring observers that price pressures are in a downtrend, and adding to impetus for a rate cut.
Keen to make a successful debut in London and with an eye on the volatile markets, the Ruia brothers cut the offer price this morning.
Mr Franzia, who anticipated the glut, cut production at his own vineyards and then stepped in to buy the excess grapes at a knock-down price.
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Smaller mills raised their output by nearly 20% in the first nine months of 2012 even as larger mills cut theirs by 2% amid a price drop.
After a series of passionate appeals by the Conservative MP for the home of brewing, Andrew Griffiths of Burton, Mr Osborne found enough scope to cut the price of a pint by 1p and to scrap the duty escalator altogether - a real crowd pleaser in a Tory marginal.
Her club in Hampstead Marshall now has more than 400 members and she bulk buys oil twice a month at a cut price.
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