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  2. Armani - Wikipedia

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    Established in 1979, [43] Armani Collezioni (known as Giorgio Armani Le Collezioni for women and Mani for men before 2000) [44] was the diffusion line of Giorgio Armani that retailed at a lower price than Giorgio Armani and the haute couture line, Armani Privé. The logo was usually displayed in black and written on a white label but often varies.

  3. Stealth inflation - Wikipedia

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    D.L Losman suggested that the measurement of the consumer price index in the United States may be subject to manipulation in order to lower the adjustment rate of social security benefits. [1] Focussing on which inflation is measured, Peng argues that the focus on core inflation hides commodity-based inflation from the attention of policymakers ...

  4. Veblen good - Wikipedia

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    Veblen goods such as luxury cars are considered desirable consumer products for conspicuous consumption because of, rather than despite, their high prices.. A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.

  5. Giorgio Armani - Wikipedia

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    Armani is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion. [11] Armani was the first designer to ban models with a body mass index (BMI) under 18, after model Ana Carolina Reston starved herself to death due to anorexia nervosa. [12] Armani broadcast his collection live on the Internet, the first in the world of haute couture, on 24 January 2007.

  6. Giffen good - Wikipedia

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    Under such a situation, the supply curve will increase with the rise in potatoes’ price, which is consistent with the definition of Giffen good. However, Gerald P. Dwyer and Cotton M. Lindsey challenged this idea in their 1984 article Robert Giffen and the Irish Potato , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] where they showed the contradicting nature of the Giffen ...

  7. Substitution effect - Wikipedia

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    The same concepts also apply if the price of one good goes up instead of down, with the substitution effect reflecting the change in relative prices and the income effect reflecting the fact the income has been soaked up into additional spending on the retained units of the now-pricier good. For example, consider coffee and tea. If the price of ...

  8. Samsung SGH-P520 Giorgio Armani - Wikipedia

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    The Samsung SGH-P520 is a smartphone created by Samsung Electronics, announced on September 24, 2007, at a Giorgio Armani fashion show in Milan in a partnership between the two companies. [ 1 ] It is the successor to the Samsung P310 (and the P300 before that), classified by Samsung as a " credit card -phone". [ 2 ]

  9. Effect of taxes and subsidies on price - Wikipedia

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    In the end levying a tax moves the market to a new equilibrium where the price of a good paid by buyers increases and the proportion of the price received by sellers decreases. The incidence of a tax does not depend on whether the buyers or sellers are taxed since taxes levied on sellers are likely to be met by raising the price charged to buyers.