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Now we have a president who is literally selling the place to the highest bidders, all justified on spurious comparisons with some changes Barack Obama made on a much smaller scale.

And when those people — like my parents — came here, they were immediately subjected to a racism hard-wired into the American psyche, which then justified a Latin American foreign policy bent on domination, not friendship.

If OpenAI quickly comes up with a vital service everyone proves willing to pay big bucks to use, maybe even its price can be justified.

Similarly, KeyBanc Capital Markets argued the stock’s premium was justified at the current price.

A bubble happens when speculators push prices foolishly higher than justified by the cash flow.