One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.

You write cause you want others to read how you feel, than to tell others how you fell.

In the big picture, the whole world at every level, micro, macro, physiological, psychological, material, economical, spiritual, all are a demand-supply problem.

Supply isn't going up as much as demand so the prices of metal, especially that of copper and zinc, are going up.

There's not much you can do about (the prices). It's a political matter. Of course, supply and demand comes into it, but I don't think the war in Iraq or (Hurricane) Katrina has any particular effect on it.

We recognize that prices are above what is justifiable on the basis of supply and demand fundamentals.