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Even if lenders don’t lose money on individual loans, widespread fraud can contribute to inflated housing prices and increase risks for taxpayers.

In Maui, the housing market is so inflated that even lifelong locals are being pushed off the island.

That traumatic episode was marked by inflated assumptions about the internet’s power demand.

A crash in share prices won’t change the need for energy demand, and buying the power providers is a lot cheaper than chasing the inflated values of AI giants.

Critics say the internal rate of return can be inflated by the use of “subscription credit lines,” which allow funds to borrow money against investors’ committed capital in order to smooth out the capital-call timing.