{
  "id": "the-going-rate.moving-wall",
  "term": "the going rate",
  "sense": "moving-wall",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "market.economic",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "the observed boundary of what a thing can cost, which shifts as others stop holding it in place and drift changes what is possible",
  "folk_gloss": "the price that people usually pay for something",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless",
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "maintenance.upkeep"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "value.worth",
      "price.economic",
      "rate.ratio"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Nvidia's H100 GPU list price hit $30,000, setting a new ceiling for data center hardware costs.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "By 2022, U.S. insulin list prices reached $300 per vial, tripling over a decade as insurers kept paying.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The LHC's beam energy rose to 6.5 TeV per proton by 2015, marking a new limit for operational collider physics.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "the going rate"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the moving wall"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-going-rate.moving-wall"
}