Taming Speculative Capitalism

Big speculative bubbles are rare events.

Gold is a purely speculative investment.

I don't make any speculative reports.

Speculative booms are driven by psychological feedback.

Dark energy, though speculative, solves numerous problems.

Often this can lead to speculative bubbles.

There are also ideas to address speculative swings.

Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy.

So Sarkozy shouldn t be lashing out against speculative capitalism.

The old boy cocked a speculative eye at him.

Bubbles are caused by feedback loops rising speculative prices encourage optimism, which encourages more buying, and hence further speculative price increases until the crash comes.

So we should think hard about what speculative capitalism means.

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

In the view of Iraq, the claim unit is overly speculative.

Why, then, did real inflation corrected oil prices remain at or above their 1974 levels until 1986? Speculative pressures are likely to have been at work, influencing the decisions of OPEC and many others.

Expectations become self fulfilling, oil prices rise, a speculative bubble is born.

Perhaps the speculative inflow scenario will play out, but in slow motion.

Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play.

It would seem more accurate to refer to these episodes as speculative epidemics.

The very announcement of the Fund s creation was meant to deter speculative attack.

As a result, fiscal consolidation becomes increasingly difficult to achieve, inviting renewed speculative attacks.

In such a speculative climate, the Group conducted an audit of FACI air assets.

Increased mobilization of domestic savings reduction of speculative activities shifting resources to productive activities.

Of course if you want to get imaginative, you could also combine several of these models together into a multi multiverse... a new super speculative model based, itself, on speculative and experimentally unconfirmed models.

But the real case for holding it, then as now, was never a speculative one.

Frederick made French the official language and speculative philosophy the most important topic of study.

On the other hand, the estimate of the amount required would have to be speculative.

This is still speculative, but Comet ISON could provide the seeds for a noctilucent display.

Lately, of course, the fundamentals have reversed somewhat, and the speculative frenzy has reversed even more.

In 1956, the UK was facing a speculative attack in the midst of the Suez crisis.

Protecting France from speculative capitalism seems to mean interfering with free trade to protect local jobs.

Nor, therefore, is their interest in housing as a major speculative investment asset likely to change.

This attractiveness notwithstanding, access is still quite limited and many creditors consider their lending largely speculative.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading contender in the French presidential election, recently lashed out against what he called speculative capitalism, and says he wants to moralize the financial zone created by the euro. What does Sarkozy mean by speculative capitalism?

Thus, the market also attracts investors who are not interested in the commodity, but in speculative gain.

These misunderstandings have not been corrected, which means that the same kinds of speculative dislocations could recur.

We would not like to foster a new speculative market in trying to predict emerging crisis situations.

In the cities, a lot of the cost of property is actually wrapped up in its speculative value.

The root problem is that financial markets can now mobilize tens of billions of dollars for speculative purposes.

On the other hand, in some places, a speculative bubble is fueling today s boom in vacation home prices.

Through financial intermediation, these government securities helped finance the western consumption and speculative boom that collapsed in 2008.

It encouraged financiers desperate to earn a return on abundant funds to put them to more speculative use.

Since 2000, we have seen the most dramatic evidence ever of speculative bubbles in markets for owner occupied homes.

Many investors also feel the need to balance increasingly speculative investments ( satellite positioning ) with much safer investments ( core positioning ).