Sentences with phrase «vastly inflated»

Here in Canada we were lucky to have tighter regulations that prevented banking and loan scoundrels from buying and selling mortgages like these vastly inflated loans that were created in the USA.

If the properties were properly appraised by a designated appraiser, it is highly unlikely there would be vastly inflated values.

The unit can be purchased on third - party sites, such as Amazon, but at vastly inflated prices.

As Excel's profit and turnover had been vastly inflated by the fraudulent transactions, 4Eng struggled to keep Excel afloat.

Of course, if employees opt for a car allowance rather than a company car, then they could choose to take a car on finance — which given these vastly inflated costs that are associated it could mean that they are worse - off financially.

EU nations promoted clean energy at vastly inflated costs through imposed renewable energy targets, tariffs and subsidies.

The CCC, and the renewable energy companies they service are as necessary to meet ordinary people's needs as cheap credit for mortgages on houses with vastly inflated prices were.

A clear mistrust of Lang is expressed by MikeH at this thread who uses the euphemisms «vastly inflated» and «exaggerating» where Lang would be more direct.

My firm warned of vastly inflated Japanese equities in 1989 — the grandmother of all bubbles — US growth stocks in 2000 and everything risky in late 2007.

Although their influence is now somewhat diminished, for more than a century they ran a text book marketing campaign that ensured they earned vastly inflated prices for their shiny little rocks - first by buying up the newly discovered South African diamond mines so that they effectively controlled the market, then by creating the impression of scarcity by ruthlessly controlling supplies; and then, in their pièce de résistance, commissioning one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history to create the tradition of giving diamonds as engagement gifts; which includes the famous «diamonds are forever» advertising campaign and sponsoring movies such as Gentleman Prefer Blonds (1953), To Catch A Thief (1955) and The Pink Panther (1963).

Under such a policy, a district with only a handful of bilingual education students might receive a vastly inflated spending level for each of them.

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.

The biggest problems in the supplement industry are with overhyped «fat - burner» pills, and with muscle - building supplements that have vastly inflated claims (and prices).

Among other things, Future Tech set up shell companies and then vastly inflated its claims of how much those companies charged.

The constant media attention given to these very rare success stories vastly inflates the true value of self - publishing sales.

Of self - publishing, he says «The constant media attention given to these very rare success stories vastly inflates the true value of self - publishing sales.»

While these numbers do not include December yet (which should vastly inflate them, as Christmas is prime time for the games industry), a quick glance at the numbers shows the industry as being in quite a slump.

You can well imagine that the practice of engaging experts who take up near indefensible positions vastly inflates legal costs and prolongs distress for injured parties (inflating eventual medical / societal costs).

In the case Toyome Stamper and eight other plaintiffs charged that sellers Robert and Suzanne Beeman, through their company A Home of Your Own Inc., had engaged in a civil conspiracy with an appraiser, Arthur Hoffman, and a mortgage loan officer, Joyce Wood, and her employer, Irwin Mortgage Corp., to vastly inflate the price of properties before reselling them.

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Combing through the mortgages, the firms searched for problems like borrowers who had vastly overstated their incomes or appraisals that inflated property values.

In addition to the value from this artificially inflated line, there are several betting systems which indicate that the Clippers are being vastly undervalued — most notably our 2015 - 16 NBA Betting Against the Public Report.