1.   The cash transfer does not distort prices and appears a more efficient redistributive instrument.

2.   Money prices may be distorted by monopoly power.

3.   American agricultural policy distorts food prices, frustrates innovation, limits product diversity and subsidizes a select group of farmers at enormous public cost.

4.   Economists are generally averse to tax incentives because they distort the prices determined by free markets.

5.   Faced with markets where trading is so low, or illiquid, that prices can be distorted, some private investors may abandon futures altogether.

6.   Maintaining liquidity means ensuring that each new issue of bonds is large enough so that trades of large size will not distort prices.

7.   That practice, which is endemic, distorts prices and plays havoc with traditional accounting, critics say.

8.   The report is expected to blame export subsidies used by both countries for distorting wheat prices.

9.   The wealth already in their grasp has distorted the price of housing, freezing out ordinary people with down-to-earth incomes.

10.   Western economists ridicule the barter economy as a perversion of the free market, noting that it distorts prices and makes a mockery of tax collection.