Germany is being betrayed to foreigners by the opposition, and good productive capital is once again being opposed to bad speculative capital.

Second, many argue that raising interest rates would trigger a flood of speculative capital from low yielding advanced economies.

But the long run can be long indeed, and the influence of speculative capital flows can be substantial and sustained.

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

Taming Speculative Capitalism

Potential borrowers have been accumulating massive reserves and pooling them regionally to protect themselves against shocks and speculative capital, but not at the Fund s urging.

The occasion was Brazil s decision to impose a 2 tax on short term capital inflows to prevent a speculative bubble and further appreciation of its currency.

Instead, the profitable carving up of healthy companies has freed up capital to flow to intangible assets, houses and other forms of real estate, fueling a speculative crisis.

A gold standard rule would have produced higher rates for the southern European borrowers, which would have attracted funds to where capital might be productively used, and at the same time acted as a deterrent against purely speculative capital flows.

Big speculative bubbles are rare events.

Gold is a purely speculative investment.

Speculative booms are driven by psychological feedback.

Dark energy, though speculative, solves numerous problems.

There are also ideas to address speculative swings.

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.

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.

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

So Sarkozy shouldn t be lashing out against speculative capitalism.

So we should think hard about what speculative capitalism means.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

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.

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.

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.