Sentences with phrase «artificially inflated»

When lawyers think about real estate fraud, they tend to think about fake clients with forged ID obtaining fraudulent mortgages, or flip frauds where the value of a property is artificially inflated.

«If the deposit or the purchase price is faked by an artificial value increase, which is not substantiated by the market and if it's a fake flip, then the lender is advancing more money than they otherwise would because they're basing it on an artificially inflated value.»

As we fill our vehicles with gasoline and watch the cost numbers whirl with artificially inflated prices, we might ponder, just why is it that, by refusing permits, our government did not allow us to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia?

[2] Jose Duarte responded to that first version, pointing out that many of the people surveyed worked in mitigation and impacts of climate change, (not climate «science» per se) which artificially inflated the results.

Actually, I was pointing out that there ARE benefits in cheap energy, and fossil based energy, when it is not artificially inflated in cost, has certainly been cheap.

The warming projected is not a warming due to GHG effect only, it is an artificially inflated warming.

It would be wrong to claim that the growth rate is artificially inflated by the first method just as it would be wrong to claim that it is reduced by the second one.

But it will continue to be trumpted as the most often cited dataset of the global temperature record by alarmists, despite all the past errors found, all of which artificially inflated temperatures.

The economic realities of recession and the environmental impact of such a wasteful lifestyle are becoming clear to many, not to mention the fact that it ties one down to a life - long mortgage, artificially inflated property taxes due to minimum house size requirements and a life of «stuff» - acquisition that spiritually impoverishes individuals and communities.

It shows a significant negative trend, Fred, because you've artificially inflated the number of points by using monthly rather than yearly data.

If a publisher is allowing you to purchase these things with real world money, that means the game you paid full price for has been artificially inflated.

But Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a legitimately enormous game; enormous literally because the the content is enormous, not because the content has been artificially inflated to appear enormous.

Other sites have their buys at prices that are very hard for their subscribers to replicate, so their portfolios are artificially inflated.

Online applications, including social media and messaging apps, have been used to push up the price of tokens, in order to sell them to other buyers at artificially inflated prices.

It noted that the fact Amgen is strong, viable and profitable does not mean the company stock was not artificially inflated during the class period defined in the case.

Again, only if an item is currently under investigation would you have artificially inflated credit scores.

As properties affected by mortgage fraud are sold at artificially inflated prices, properties in surrounding neighborhoods also become artificially inflated.

Speaking of caviar, champagne and the like, he says, «They have their place but most are artificially inflated in cost.»

He directly opposed legislation that appraised federal programs by claiming it artificially inflated government programs.

This artificially inflated their inventories, allowing them to qualify for larger loans.When the company eventually started to default on their outrageously large loans, Amex's stock price was crushed, and Buffett picked up a massive amount of shares for cheap.

Over the years, housing prices became artificially inflated, and many people were purchasing houses with sub-prime mortgages.

By design, for the last eight years, central bank policies have artificially inflated traditional assets like stocks and bonds.

The result of all this has been artificially inflated eBook prices meant to turn customers away from things like the Kindle.

So the number of physical books is somewhat artificially inflated, as not all of those books make it to the hands of readers.

According to the AAP, last February's figure was artificially inflated due to a «one - off retail revenue transaction report» that «now makes that figure abnormally high.»

The response was very positive, and that artificially inflated September's download numbers, and October returned to the steady trendline.

READERS SHOULD NEVER BE HURT BY AND OVERCHARGED BECAUSE OF A «SECRET» SYSTEM THAT»S KEEPING PRICES ARTIFICIALLY INFLATED.

We've been given to understand that the hardcover has an artificially inflated value (costing mere pennies per unit more to produce than the paperback), and that this artificial inflation is crucial to the success of the book.

The professor who requires it most likely owns the rights to the handouts already, but the sale of those packets through the university means the price is artificially inflated to account for the printing and the school's cut.

Second, this legislation would only affect Quebec, so consumers in other parts of Canada would not have to pay the artificially inflated price, meaning readers who live along the borderline between Quebec and a neighboring province would simply move their book purchases across the line to avoid paying a higher price.

It is thus in the economic fitness of things that we charge only very normal and reasonable prices from all our valued customers, since we are well aware of market dynamics and the ill effects of unreasonable and artificially inflated pricing in terms of our long term business growth and development over time.

But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.

At Top Quality Motors you will find no artificially inflated prices, no high pressure sales people, and no misleading statements.

Although Harris's assertion that doing this would also help prevent principals from saving truly ineffective teachers (e.g., by countering teachers» value - added scores with artificially inflated or allegedly fake observational scores), on behalf of principals as professionals, I find insulting.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

A large portion of the cuts stem from an accounting mistake district officials made during last year's budget process, which artificially inflated charters» allocations.

School and school district grades continue to be artificially inflated due to waivers they received as the state was transitioning to new tests and higher standards.

And boards of education want to compete in the marketplace for entry - level teachers, so early sections of the salary schedule are artificially inflated.

It doesn't distinguish between healthy and toxic forms of minerals on the test, but we know when a mineral looks «off» or artificially inflated on a test that it could be a toxic form.

Zinc looks good but is likely being propped up due to high copper, so it may be artificially inflated.

Selling this artificially inflated credit could thus ultimately enable more carbon to be emitted than if the offset had not been created at all.

For instance, not excluding those who might be thin because of a chronic illness may have artificially inflated the number of deaths in the underweight group.

In fact, he insists that his legislation would actually drive down premiums for everyone, noting that a major reason they are so pricey is that hospitals and doctors charge the insured artificially inflated rates to cover the unpaid bills of the uninsured.

«We've imposed some discipline,» said Megna, who says he and his staff are seeking ways to curb artificially inflated spending in some parts of the budget, to leave enough room to continue to pay more for education and health care, and to «better withstand a downturn if it did occur».

Bad practice across the board - from Woolies to MFI - of endlessly leveraging and endlessly insuring against anything (basically hedging by another name) has artificially inflated our own economy - and we the consumers never complained.

And this means that the baby's birth weight is artificially inflated after birth.

Because elective Caesareans occurred only in the «intended a hospital birth» group, their inclusion in this analysis would have artificially inflated the risk of PPH for hospital births, because elective Caesareans tend to be performed in response to fears about the safety of vaginal delivery, eg if the foetus is malpresented.

DR. JEN THOMAS: Well, sure I think they will over eat that's what they have so many kids barfing in the hospital when they need to keep supplemented for things like artificially inflated birth weight and a lot fluid loss afterwards.

Many bettors will think it is unlikely that a bad team will win two games in a row and can lead to artificially inflated lines.

This would cause the total to be artificially inflated lending value to the under.