1.   In a world where analysts put outlandish price targets on stocks and money managers regularly promote the stocks they hold on CNBC, truer words were never spoken.

2.   In recent months, that has meant paying outlandish prices for stocks that were among the most beloved.

3.   Murdoch is accustomed to paying outlandish prices for sports properties to enhance his global media empire.

4.   Ohkuwagata also live elsewhere in Asia, and when Japanese ohkuwagata were selling at outlandish prices, travelers began to smuggle foreign ones into Japan.

5.   Outlandish price targets also have proved embarrassing for analysts who tend to reduce them only well after the stocks are crushed.