Sentence examples similar to exorbitant speculation from inspiring English sources

The study recommends that the city work harder to help growing businesses thrive, in part by addressing "the fundamental issues hampering business growth in the city, such as permitting, business taxes and policies that spur exorbitant real estate speculation".

Rather than incur such expenses, companies increasingly prefer to pay their executives exorbitant bonuses, or issue special dividends to shareholders, or engage in purely financial speculation.

The expression refers to speculation in general, but most particularly to land speculation and to Tokyo, where land prices have been the most outrageously exorbitant in the country.

The thrill was exorbitant.

Prices are often exorbitant.

And the costs are exorbitant.

Ticket prices are exorbitant by Indian standards.

Fans have paid exorbitant prices for tickets.

"They paid themselves exorbitant salaries.

The costs have been exorbitant.

Is that an exorbitant amount?