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Taming Speculative Capitalism

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In contrast to the other two psychological causes, speculative contagion has a natural end. A speculative bubble, sustaining itself solely by reaction to price increases, cannot go on forever.

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

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

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

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia. Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble. The current boom has seen contagion

The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

Since the exact ratio of men to women within the framework of the total population is unknown, these conclusions are rather speculative.

And linked to this crowd mania were examples all around the world from the election of a president to the infamous Wikipedia, and everything in between on what the power of numbers could achieve.

Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy. Anger has come to focus on banking executives huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.

With non OPEC oil producers following suit, oil production was approaching full capacity in the first quarter of 2005, thereby heightening speculative pressures for price increases.

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NEW HAVEN People frequently ask me, as someone who has written on market speculation, where the next big speculative bubble is likely to be. Will it be in housing again?

Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion.

In such circumstances, the decision on the anticipated future effects of logging is by necessity speculative, with only subsequent events bearing out whether or not the initial assessment was correct.

One has to be very speculative, and many of my colleagues would say that we should not do this speculation, that we should simply keep our counsel until we know more.

However, experience continues to show that financial markets often fail to meet this challenge in emerging markets, as they tend to be pro cyclical and subject to speculative and herd mentalities.

Today s challenges finance, food, and energy, for example are many. Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.

The Committee considers, however, that this default on the part of the State party cannot be imputed to the complainant and, moreover, that whether the Court's consideration would have been different remains speculative.

Speculative bubbles are the visible manifestation of that temptation. As the bubbles burst and they always do false prosperity is exposed and the defensive tactics of market manipulation become both urgent and seemingly logical.

In addition to having a suboptimal exchange rate arrangement, the more vulnerable ESCWA member countries are unable to defend their currencies under the current conditions of free capital movement and intensified international speculative activities.

The recent equity market rally is largely divorced from fundamentals and is driven by speculative, debt financed purchases. The outlook for corporate profits remains weak the country s equity supply is growing and valuations are stretched.

All seemed to have something to do with speculative price movements that surprised most observers and were never really explained, even years after the fact. They also had something to do with government policymakers mistakes.

In the first half of 2008, commodity prices moved up quickly and plummeted just as fast in the second half of the year. There may well have been speculative behavior that contributed to the rapid swing.

This difference is a result of the monopolistic structure of the wholesale segment of distribution that allows for speculative behaviour and in the case of franchising difference is due to changes in consumers' preferences and tastes.

Mounting imbalances in the US were the mirror image of those in China a massive shortfall of domestic saving, unprecedented current account deficits, excess debt, and an asset dependent economy that was ultimately built on speculative quicksand.

Second, many argue that raising interest rates would trigger a flood of speculative capital from low yielding advanced economies. With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows, upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.

These, together with the external shocks triggered by the volatility of speculative capital flows, drastic terms of trade adjustments and even inflows of remittances, make the potential benefits of structural adjustment and stabilization policies difficult to attain.