inflated prices

There is nothing inherently wonderful about inflated prices, but it is not easy to bet that prices will fall.

It has also led to a lot of public tenders being awarded, often at inflated prices, to family and friends of politicians and officials.

Pakistan artificially inflated prices by up to 30 percent for supplies like fuel, ammunition, and barbed wire.

Tourists stand out, so often you'll be singled out for special attention and inflated prices.

It is a crisis that will land, inevitably, on the city dweller's food plate, in the form of inflated prices.

Both are accused of unlawful conduct over the lease of new police headquarters at grossly inflated prices.

That's the flip side of the inflated prices associated with a bubble, Zhang explains.

The problem posed by the paucity of quality hotel rooms and their inflated prices has even spurred India's finance minister to take action.

Local residents also refer to the inflated prices as a cause for fewer births.

In inflated prices and stolen food anti-corruption campaigners see proof of how aid rots everything it touches.

In this case . . . researchers inflated prices of wines . . . and then observed the brain's activity related to perceptions of pleasure.

A lack of competition on many routes has led to inflated prices.

Critics believe this cheats retail investors who later buy post-IPO shares at inflated prices.

Preferences were shown by brain wave patterns as highest when wines came with inflated prices.

The former Porto boss insisted the inflated prices in the English market does not help him buy home-grown players.

Hotels were packed, even at inflated prices.

Many of these are illiquid and still booked at their original, inflated prices.

For example, employers used pension plan funds to purchase their own stock at inflated prices or paid service providers excessive fees.