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On This Day | Economy Gets Back to Dickering
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Josh Wolsky
When controls went off autos, some Minot area people with cars to sell immediately jacked up the prices of the cars they had to sell, a private survey by the Independent reveals. However, by Wednesday the sellers generally had entered the ‘dicker phase,’ in which the price of the car is not announced and the seller feels out the buyer to see how much he will pay. Dicker prices were generally considerably lower than Sunday and Monday prices, and prices of used cars are expected by sellers here to continue downward as they have for the past four months.
1946-11-14 | Ward County Independent
Why We Chose It
There's a thing to learn here about government interference in the price of things, and when a place is at war, maybe it makes sense. But it sure seems like we're in the process of having to learn this lesson all over again... the one about government playing in markets and what it does to prices. One things for sure, we'll be dickering about that to no end.
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