{"id":15325,"date":"2017-05-09T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:23:15","slug":"a-big-hunk-o-market-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/a-big-hunk-o-market-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Hunk o&#8217; Market Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050917_1120_ABigHunkoM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prices for Elvis memorabilia are cratering wrote Oobah Butler:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once upon a time people built retirement nest eggs on valuable Elvis goods. You could get as much as \u00a325,000 ($32,000) if you had five original Sun singles.<\/li>\n<li>But prices have fallen. In 1998 a collector could hope to get \u00a3125 for the Take the Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight EP. Today prices have fallen by an order of magnitude to about \u00a313.50<\/li>\n<li>Demand is waning as fans of Elvis enter their 70s and 80s.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile supply is up as the goods of those hoping to cash in for retirement \u2013 or those who simply pass away \u2013 flood the market.<\/li>\n<li>The era of Elvis Presley as an icon is coming to a gentle end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/shortcuts\/2017\/may\/07\/elvis-presley-memorabilia-plummeting-in-price?CMP=twt_a-music_b-gdnmusic\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices for Elvis memorabilia are cratering wrote Oobah Butler: Once upon a time people built retirement nest eggs on valuable Elvis goods. You could get as much as \u00a325,000 ($32,000) if you had five original Sun singles. But prices have fallen. In 1998 a collector could hope to get \u00a3125 for the Take the Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050917_1120_ABigHunkoM1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15327,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions\/15327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}