American movie-ticket prices and American cheese imports, both climbing. The cinema and the cheeseboard, two unrelated premiums of American discretionary spending, sharing the same eighteen-year ascent.
Average US movie ticket prices grew from about 6.40 dollars in 2005 to over 11 by 2022 as theatre operators raised prices to offset declining attendance. US cheese imports grew across the same window as European specialty-cheese demand expanded and trade-deal access widened. Two completely unrelated price-and-trade lines sharing a window because the same eighteen years inflated both a cinema-pricing benchmark and a specialty-cheese trade flow.
Two completely unrelated American premiums got more expensive. The seat and the slice, both up.
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