Were we going to pay an over-inflated price for a lesser product than Andy Carroll?
Then Cuba had become dependent on selling sugar to the Soviet Union at an inflated price.
And not even a prolonged conflict in the Middle East may bring about such an inflated price.
There are many persuasive reasons to avoid organic foods besides the inflated price.
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Instead, I was annoyed when, seemingly every 5 minutes, they were trying to sell something else at an inflated price.
Levinson, eliminates the need for lawyers to show that every individual investor relied on company statements to buy stock at an inflated price.
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But there are exceptions, especially when companies are desperate to prop up their shares (and raise money from investors at the inflated price).
Last year, Terra Firma took Citigroup to court in the US, accusing the bank of tricking it into paying an inflated price for EMI.
If a company buys something from a subsidiary at an inflated price, the Tax Agency can treat the purchase as a non-deductible charitable donation.
According to our valuation methodology, we believed the stock had become simply too hot and the underlying fundamentals could not support such an inflated price level.
That makes it very hard for a lawyer to argue that TXU shareholders who accepted cash for their stock at what turned out to be a grossly inflated price suffered damages, Rock said.
No single individual (except, perhaps, Warren Buffett) can push up a company's share price by buying its stock at an inflated price, but the price of residential property is set locally by the latest transactions.
The price they paid incorporated all that was known about the stock, the theory goes, so if it plunged after the company released new information, the investor can be presumed to have bought it at an inflated price.
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Even if Dell wanted to retire as king of the PC business, his inflated stock price won't let him.
Meanwhile, share splits artificially inflated the price of livedoor shares, which were invariably used as the currency for acquisitions.
Ultimately you can get a 35% discount from the inflated list price just by challenging individual items, she says.
Lots of potential claimants were excluded, notably those with no record of using tainted research (although analysts' puffery inflated the price for everyone).
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Todd Roscoe, a former executive at the hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.
Even if Dell wanted to retire as king of the PC business--an idea as unthinkable as Mick Jagger's giving up tight pants--his inflated stock price won't let him.
Tenet Healthcare ( THC - news - people ), says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.
One of the challenges that we've got to address internationally is currency rates and how they match up to make sure that our goods are not artificially inflated in price and their goods are artificially deflated in price.
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Protectionist tariffs were dismantled, forcing companies to become more competitive through innovation, embracing new technologies and finding new markets a process that culminated in the abolition of the hated system of agricultural subsidies known as the Corn Laws which had inflated the price of bread.
Schramm clearly intended to tap on the brakes a little, but just as the positive feedback of investor psychology inflated the stock price on the upside, negative feedback exaggerated the negative effects on the downside.
One hospital might have 30 different insurance contracts and the same number of rates that it charges them, plus a list price inflated to double or even triple those rates that it charges customers who lack insurance.
But the Bank will be loth to repeat the mistake of the late 1980s, when too lax a monetary policy inflated a property-price bubble.
The market price seems inflated.
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Tying decisions to a proposed number, even when it is random or misguided, is known by psychologists as anchoring and helps explain why a "50% off" sale can seem so compelling even when the original price was vastly inflated.
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But it is clear that the price Israel paid was outrageously inflated and unwise.
If a lender tries to play it safe then she will still get screwed by the fact that any loan she makes will be to a buyer who is paying market price, which is bubble inflated.
The prosecutors believe that the price of these rights was artificially inflated by intermediary companies in order to set up offshore slush funds to pay off politicians.
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