21.   Comparisons like these suggest that corporate managers are doing a good job for shareholders and that stocks are not trading at wildly inflated prices.

22.   Cliff found that in his marketplace, fewer people paid inflated prices and everyone was able to maximize profits.

23.   Cruise ships also managed to fill their millennium cruises only by scaling back their inflated prices.

24.   Doctors would flee traditional Medicare and serve only healthy and wealthy retirees, at inflated prices no one else could afford.

25.   Domestic investors snapped up shares of the most popular blue chip shares, anticipating that foreigners would have no choice but to pay inflated prices.

26.   Edison is constantly negotiating with its creditors over the huge debts it owes to power generators that charged inflated prices last year.

27.   Duffy said the inflated prices may reflect the fact that the companies are catering to underage buyers willing to pay a huge premium.

28.   Finally, businesses support the brokers by paying inflated prices for seats that the companies use to impress clients.

29.   For example, the larger company may sell goods to the other at inflated prices, creating big profits for itself while causing losses for its smaller partner.

30.   Further, the suit said top Amgen executives benefited by selling shares in the company at a time when the stock was trading at artificially inflated prices.