In the demand and supply analysis of financial markets, the “price” is the rate of return or the interest rate received. In the labor market, households are on the supply side of the market and firms are on the demand side.

In the market for financial capital, households and firms can be on either side of the market: they are suppliers of financial capital when they save or make financial investments, and demanders of financial capital… In the demand and supply analysis of labor markets, we can measure the price by the annual salary or hourly wage received.

interest rate — the “price” of borrowing in the financial market; a rate of return on an investment. minimum wage — a price floor that makes it illegal for an employer to pay employees less than a certain hourly rate. usury laws — laws that impose an upper limit on the interest rate that lenders can charge.