Then he bought cars at the cheap official price and sold them at the free-market one.
There's an official price the buyer and seller report to the tax authorities.
This year, for example, the official price is two rupees per kilo less than the minimum cost of refining.
Samurais are not listed on an exchange, so there is no official price.
Affiliated retailers bought at the official price from affiliated wholesalers, who in turn bought at the official rate from manufacturers.
With a speculative real estate market taking off in Indian cities, the official price the government pays could be well below the market one.
Moreover, official price data are a lagging indicator, analysts said.
Just as troubling may have been the extraordinarily rapid recent growth in corporate profits, which can be evidence of inflationary pressure not picked up by the official price data.
The actual Bretton Woods system failed because the Fed did not manage the size of the monetary base so as to keep the free market price of gold equal to the official price.
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In particular, conservatives would argue that the official Consumer Price Index was over-stating the rate of inflation, thereby under-stating the rate at which things were improving.
It also creates the potential for the Fed to (mistakenly) provide opportunities for arbitrage between the official gold price and the interest rates set by the central bank.
We hope that we can soon revert to an official consumer-price index for Argentina.
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No official word on price or release, but it's suggested it'll be landing in Europe as soon as this week.
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According to official statements the price of flour could be 40 times higher, petrol would cost between four and seven times more, gas five times more, and electricity and water about three times more.
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Each time contracts come up for renewal--they run for four to eight years--the price of official sponsorship goes up.
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This, the official says, is the price of an intensely bureaucratic process of government.
In fact, official statistics show that property price increases slowed in July.
It also managed to narrow the gap between the official exchange rate and the price of the dollar in the free market.
But we do have official statistics on these things, price indexes weighted to reflect the importance of various items in our budgets.
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Petrol costs less than 5 cents a litre in Venezuela at the official exchange rate, but raising the price is politically sensitive.
Official media say the cut in the price of medicines will cost the hospital about 2m yuan in lost revenue this year.
Official inflation data remains subdued, with consumer price index estimates for October suggesting to be flat versus a rise of 0.3% in September.
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Former colleagues say Mr. Shuvalov had no inside information on the decision-making process and didn't use his official position to try to affect the share price.
After the official announcement of the deal Heinz's share price rose by 20%.
In August the bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) forecast that consumer-price inflation would fall back to its official 2% target, but only after a period of economic weakness had drawn its sting.
The first is that the price of gold has been rising even though official inflation is low.
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