Sentences with phrase «inflated prices by»

He is then able to benefit from inflated prices by selling his shares above their calculated value.

In ways Sundance became a victim of its own success: unworthy films started getting bought up speculatively at vastly inflated prices by Hollywood studios, and big - name filmmakers began using the Sundance brand to lend credibility to their work.

Many of the average joes jumping into facebook advertising now are inflating the price by setting a high cpc bid and targeting too large a demographic.

Both manufacturers offer the potential models to inflate those prices by a large margin, the Tesla hitting over # 120k in top - level trim.

Options like the GranLusso or GranSport packages can inflate the price by thousands; a Quattroporte GTS can climb ever closer to $ 170,000 and beyond.

The V8 S that we tested had a Mulliner package including diamond - quilted leather seats, sports pedals and a rear seat entertainment system that inflated its price by over # 50,000.

As is the case with most stuff from Audi - and indeed German cars in general - you're going to want to stick on some options that will inflate that price by a significant amount.

Abuses in the mobility aids sector — such as inflating prices by 400 % in door - step sales to house - bound individuals — illustrate some of the worst practices.

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And by taking on so much initial capital, they're basically trying to strong - arm companies like Facebook or Twitter buy them at an inflated price.

Republican critics say they fear that by flooding the financial system with money, the Fed has inflated stock and real estate prices and could create asset bubbles that could pop with dangerous consequences for the economy.

Shop for the best price and avoid your insurance's inflated rates and convoluted billing process by paying cash.

Changes in power costs due to falling oil prices, meanwhile, can vary considerably by market and region, and, in many markets, gasoline prices are so inflated by taxation that the impact of lower oil prices for consumers is considerably dampened.

When we helped a particular company with their pricing strategy before their IPO, we discovered a disastrous mistake - they had been mistakingly inflating their MRR numbers by just over 15 % by not taking into account certain lifetime discounts.

My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.

By inefficiently utilizing valuable capital to buy back stock at inflated prices, the company destroyed value for long - term shareholders.

A lower tax on land rents leaves more to be capitalized into bank loans, and hence inflates the price of housing — while government revenue is balanced by burdening labor and industry with income and sales taxes.

What happened is that the early privatizers bled their companies while selling shares to the workers at prices that were being inflated by the flow of wage set - asides into the stock market.

The suit contended that the companies did so by inflating the published average wholesale price of the drug, giving free samples to doctors knowing they would charge patients and insurers for them, and giving incentives to doctors so that they would prescribe Lupron instead of less costly alternatives.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

In San Francisco rising property prices have been blamed on the inflated salaries in the tech sector, and led to company buses carrying employees from the city to the sprawling tech campuses in the Valley being stoned by protesters — what one tech executive described to me as «the Google bus piñata».

The Bush plan to privatize Social Security is basically Pinochet's and Thatcher's «pension fund capitalism» expanded to orchestrate bubbles by inflating asset prices on credit.

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.

The only way to keep this unproductive debt overhead solvent is to inflate asset prices more — by untaxing assets to leave more revenue to pay bankers on exponentially growing debts.

The Commerce Department has imposed tariffs averaging 20 % on Canadian lumber shipments into the U.S. NAHB believes the tariffs are harming housing affordability, home builders and consumers by artificially inflating lumber prices, which are running at an all - time high.

There will be plenty of access to supply when home building stops because the prices of everything have been artificially inflated by the taxes imposed on the imported materials.

Canadian house prices may be seen by some as among the most inflated in the world, but observers on the home front don't see problems on the horizon.

However, as I should have seen from my prior experience with boom - bust cycles, the company is able to fund its cash losses by issuing stock at inflated prices.

But banks postponed the collapse into negative equity by lowering their lending standards, providing enough new credit to keep on inflating prices.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

Even if they are not acquired, such companies often are hurt, by being forced to pay «greenmail» - to buy - back their own stock at inflated prices from the raider in return for dropping the threat.

By adding things like salmon protein hydrolysate, damaged protein and other fillers, manufacturers are able to sell you an inferior product at an inflated price.

Prior to Gazidis Wenger didn't penny pinch for players, Wenger would pay over the odds if it meant getting his player, this is proven by Nasri who signed a new contract just before Wenger bought him for an inflated price... few months after Gazidis arrives and that type of spending STOPS.

Hardly shrewd business to inflate the price of every single transfer target by stating you've got a fortune and make it less likely for AW to sign someone.

I think it was a bad move by Wenger letting Coq go for a miserly # 12 million at today's inflated prices but getting back to Alexis the good news that's happening now is he's creating a bidding war which I hope will push Lex's price up

It's actually a cold - eyed strategy to gain prominence and regional security by investing heavily in key parts of Western infrastructure, and leveraging financial muscle to exploit weak regulations within the sport, thereby capitalising on an undervalued market to massively inflate the price of their asset.

Sanchez OUT (seems to be overrated by almost every1 in the world, would be sold at a hugely inflated price) Bale IN

With so much parity in the NFL, wiseguys and betting syndicates eagerly take underdogs — especially at inflated prices caused by the increase in public money from recreational bettors.

There are plenty of suitors, and given the price tag would be less than Everton are paying for Gylfi Sigurdsson — whose numbers are highly inflated by set pieces — it would certainly be money well spent, for whoever procures the graceful Ivorian.

And by all means do not charge inflated shipping prices!!

There is a great deal of effort being put forth by the owners / patent holders / royalty beneficiaries to market and sell it at grossly inflated prices.

They mislead parents and health workers to undermine breastfeeding, inflate prices of infant formula and push products such as follow - on milks and growing - up milks that are described as unnecessary by the World Health Organisation and the NHS.»

In the U.S. some generic drugs have an inflated price because they are monopolized by one company.

@dtech The growth was a) sustained purely by inflated oil (and gas) prices, not any intelligent policies and b) pretty pathetic compared to the growth of actually rapidly developing countries.

It would be recalled that in the heat of the election processes, there was public outcry over the award of the pink sheets contract to Aerovote, which some critics claimed it was inflated when the GH cents 7.2 million price was revealed by the commission.

Six months after the December 2006 Indigenous World Uranium Summit (IWUS) at Window Rock, Arizona, the assault by governments and the uranium industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including several in New Mexico.

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«Some companies mask the fee for singles by inflating prices across the board to create an appearance of free or reduced single supplements... Traveling solo together A guest on a Contiki tour in Costa Rica.

Managers, appointed by the local school boards, inflated the price of contracts to generate lucrative kickbacks that took money directly away from students and siphoned money from taxpayers.

Extra turbo and electric hardware can inflate sticker prices by anywhere from $ 500 to a couple of grand.

Some base models are leanly equipped, and adding the amenities modern drivers expect can inflate the vehicle's price by several thousand dollars.