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Cramer founded TheStreet in 1996 and writes daily market commentary for Real Money. In addition to hosting Mad Money with Jim Cramer on CNBC, he manages Action Alerts PLUS, an investing club that follows positions and trades of his charitable portfolio. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and after several years as a newspaper reporter, he returned to earn a law degree. Instead of practicing law, Cramer joined Goldamn Sachs and went on to manage his own hedge fund. He retired from active money management in 2000 to embrace media full time and has authored seven books on investing.
James 'Rev Shark' DePorre

DePorre is the founder and CEO of Shark Asset Management and the author of Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy With No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market. He also operates sharkinvesting.com, an interactive online community for active investors.
Bruce Kamich

Kamich is TheStreet's in-house technical analyst with 40 years experience working with a number of bulge bracket firms, accumulating knowledge on commodities, interest rates, equities and ETFs along the way.

Kamich was one of the earliest Chartered Market Technicians (CMT). He is author of Chart Patterns and How Technical Analysis Works and is a two-time past president of the Market Technicians Association, the professional organization for chartists worldwide.
Carolyn Boroden

Boroden is a Commodity Trading Advisor and technical analyst who has been involved in the trading industry for over 25 years. Her background includes working on the major trading floors including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the CBOT, NYFE and COMEX, where she eventually shifted over to focusing on technical analysis of the markets.
Carley Garner

Garner is an experienced futures and options broker with DeCarley Trading, a division of Zaner Group, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is also the author of Higher Probability Commodity Trading; A Trader's First Book on Commodities; Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets; and Commodity Options: Trading and Hedging Volatility in the World's Most Lucrative Market.

Her e-newsletters, The DeCarley Perspective and The Financial Futures Report have garnered a loyal following; she is also proactive in providing free trading education at DeCarleyTrading.com.
Stephen Guilfoyle

Guilfoyle earned his nickname serving as a sergeant in reserve components of the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army while simultaneously working on Wall Street.

Guilfoyle is the founder and President of Sarge986 LLC, a family-run trading operation. An NYSE floor trader for over 30 years, Guilfoyle has served as the Chief Market Economist for Stuart Frankel & Co., the U.S. Economist for Meridian Equity Partners and as a Vice President in Block Trading and Investment Banking with Credit Suisse.

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Definition: The nominal price of a good is its value in terms of money, such as dollars, French francs, or yen. The relative or real price is its value in terms of some other good, service, or bundle of goods. The term “relative price” is used to make comparisons of different goods at the same moment of time. The term “real price” tends to be used to make comparisons of one good to a group or bundle of other goods across different time periods, such as one year to the next.

Examples:

Nominal price: That CD costs $18. Japan’s science and technology spending costs its taxpayers about 3 trillion yen per year.

Relative price: A year of college costs about the value of a Toyota Camry. Those tickets to see Lady Gaga cost me three weeks’ worth of food.

Real price: The real price of coffee rose in the last year, so to buy a pound of coffee I now have to skip a day of croissants or buy fewer songs on iTunes. My cost of living rose 2% last year in real terms.

When we say that the relative price of computers has fallen in recent years, we mean that the price of computers relative to or measured in terms of other goods and services–such as TVs, cars, tickets to the Super Bowl, or how many hours you have to work to buy a computer–has declined. The opportunity cost has fallen.

When economists talk about prices, they always mean relative or real prices, even if they use dollars to express themselves succinctly in conversation. Most of the time, you can be pretty sure that if the nominal price of a bag of chips goes up from $1.00/bag to $1.05/bag (that is, by 5%), its relative price when compared to other goods has also increased by 5%. Economists usually give examples using nominal prices because nominal prices are familiar and easy to understand. Nominal prices are the equivalent of relative prices except in times of inflation.

Although the real price of a good or service is just another term for its relative price, the term “real price” can be a little confusing. It tends to used to make comparisons of groups or bundles of goods and services across time.

Let’s say every month you go to the store and buy the same group of things–say, 4 bottles of soda, 2 bags of chips, 1 jar of salsa, and 1 pack of paper plates. You can compare the total price of that bundle from one month to the next. Suppose for several months the bundle always costs you $10/month. Maybe one month soda costs a little more and chips a little less, while the next month the chips cost a little more and the soda a little less, but the total is always $10. That is, the relative prices of soda and chips change from month to month, but the whole bundle costs the same amount each month.

Economists describe this common occurrence by saying there is no change in the real price of your bundle. Nothing changes on average from one month to the next.

Now suppose that suddenly one month the price of the whole bundle increases and you have to pay $11. Economists describe this by saying that the real price has risen by 10% (because [$11-$10]/$10 = 10%). They alternatively say that the bundle went up by 10% in real terms. Compared to the previous month, that same bundle of goods increased in price.

If you happen to include enough goods and services in the bundle, you could alternatively say there was a 10% inflation. Inflation means that the nominal prices of all goods and services in the economy increase on average. A 10% inflation means that the nominal cost of a bundle of everything you buy in total–including your rent, bus fare, movie tickets, food, etc.–has risen by 10%. (You could equally well describe this by saying your cost of living increased.)

Economists don’t have time to track your personal purchases, but they do track the prices of some very large bundles of goods and services and thereby create estimates of inflation. They use those estimates to adjust for inflation. If economists say that the real, or inflation-adjusted price of chips went up, they mean that the price of chips went up by more than overall inflation. That is, if the price of chips rises from $1/bag to $1.30/bag, and inflation or the aver

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