Sentences with phrase «assets at inflated prices»

What we don't want to do is provide a place for companies to dump lousy assets at inflated prices.

It dragged Telenor ASA (telly), its Norwegian partner in Vimpelcom, through the Russian and Ukrainian courts to force it to accept a strategy that involved buying other Alfa - controlled assets at inflated prices.

Many seem to be waiting for «the big kill,» the sucker who proverbally is born every minute, but whom a Russian only needs to meet once in a lifetime to dump his assets at an inflated price (something like the Rockefellers finally being able to dump their money - losing Rockefeller Center on the Japanese when the once - in - a-lifetime spike of New York real - estate prices occurred in 1988).

Not exact matches

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

In finance, a pump and dump is a form of fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an asset through misleading sentiment in order to sell it at a higher price in the near future.

He explains that when a government body in this case the CBN steps in and sets price at levels where they would not ordinarily go by themselves, they are repressing the price of interest rate, inflating the price of risk assets.

To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.

Suddenly, those who are successful outside the game (success being defined as having enough disposable income to afford RMT services, such as the purchase of in game liquid assets), are able to buy a great deal more at what was once the market equilibrium, creating an artificially inflated demand, and causing prices to rise as supply dries up.

«The prolonged period of rates at or near zero that we've seen since about 2008 has driven investors to find higher yields, and the concern is that that can lead to inflating asset prices,» Yun says.