Still feeling the blow, this has led to a loss of equity (from inflated levels) for every homeowner in the country.
On the American Stock Exchange, however, sentiment that prices are at inflated levels grew stronger.
Without piracy keeping prices to a more reasonable level then that industry would hike prices to a vastly inflated level.
Once the stock price reached an inflated level, the mobsters sold their shares and made huge profits, leaving individual investors with worthless stock.
While European telecommunications stocks have fallen even more than that, he said, they also started from an inflated level.
Obviously, buybacks artificially drive up share values to dangerously inflated levels.
By the definition of economists, members of a cartel join to control supply and to fix prices at an inflated level.
Mr. Ishii reportedly earned several million dollars by selling some of his holdings at this inflated level.
Hong Kong has some of the lowest taxes in the world, and land prices there are considerably cheaper than the inflated levels of Japan.
Duke brokers kept the stocks at inflated levels by making false and misleading recommendations to customers and then deterring them from selling.