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Let's start with Beatle mania hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.

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Taming Speculative Capitalism

DAKAR Sub Saharan African is in the grip of currency union mania.

Sports mania deafening crowds, all for one idea get the ball in the net.

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.

The first, written in 1855, thirty five years after his death, concluded he suffered from acute mania.

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.

From early 1947 to May 1948, when Israel became a state, Amalia (Mania) Schoeps was director of Sciesopoli.

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.

Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

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.

LONDON As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Great Britain, to a rare display of public exultation.

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

Mania is always relative to the normal rate of intensity of the person being diagnosed with it therefore, an easily angered person may exhibit mania by getting even angrier even more quickly, and an intelligent person may adopt seemingly genius characteristics and an ability to perform and to articulate thought beyond what they can do in a normal mood.

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?

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.