No single individual (except, perhaps, Warren Buffett) can push up a company's share price by buying its stock at an inflated price, but the price of residential property is set locally by the latest transactions.

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Then Cuba had become dependent on selling sugar to the Soviet Union at an inflated price.

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Instead, I was annoyed when, seemingly every 5 minutes, they were trying to sell something else at an inflated price.

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Levinson, eliminates the need for lawyers to show that every individual investor relied on company statements to buy stock at an inflated price.

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But there are exceptions, especially when companies are desperate to prop up their shares (and raise money from investors at the inflated price).

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If a company buys something from a subsidiary at an inflated price, the Tax Agency can treat the purchase as a non-deductible charitable donation.

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The price they paid incorporated all that was known about the stock, the theory goes, so if it plunged after the company released new information, the investor can be presumed to have bought it at an inflated price.

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That makes it very hard for a lawyer to argue that TXU shareholders who accepted cash for their stock at what turned out to be a grossly inflated price suffered damages, Rock said.

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Todd Roscoe, a former executive at the hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, says that a 40% discount off the inflated list price is the norm for cash-paying customers.

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The only firms that can afford that sort of price are listed companies trading on equally inflated multiples Clear Channel itself is trading at 31 times earnings.

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