{"id":54699,"date":"2011-01-14T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=54699"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:32:27","slug":"why-the-price-of-eggs-in-armenia-cannot-increase-by-40-armenias-former-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/14\/why-the-price-of-eggs-in-armenia-cannot-increase-by-40-armenias-former-pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Why the Price of Eggs in Armenia Cannot Increase by 40%: Armenia&#8217;s Former PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s National Statistical Service (NSS) made a blatant lie, saying that 700 million eggs were produced and that Armenia&#8217;s population decreased by 100,000 last year, said former Armenian prime minister Hrant Bagratyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I invite Armenia&#8217;s statistical department, beginning with [the country&#8217;s] prime minister, to my place for a lecture on micro-economy: having these figures, what does the curve mean. When the population drops, egg production increases to 700 million from 500 million, the actual price of eggs cannot increase by 40% of the annual average,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bagratyan said eggs are not an &#8220;elastic product,&#8221; then asked whether Armenia&#8217;s prime minister knows what an elastic product is: &#8220;I explain this to my students. I can also tolerate [NSS President] Stepan Mnatsakanyan in the classroom, so they don&#8217;t supply us with such lies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Armenia, said Bagratyan, 500\u2013550 million eggs were always produced, 400\u2013420 million of which were large eggs and 130 million were small, so-called household eggs, which were more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of a clash among oligarchs, because he who was the biggest began to reduce the price [of eggs], in order to put the others out of business, forcing them to sell their manufacturing plants to him cheaply, during that time, the small [egg producers] were killed,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia&#8217;s National Statistical Service made a blatant lie, saying that 700 million eggs were&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19556,18073,20253,20273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}