Sentences with phrase «as financial speculation»

, the inaugural exhibition «Real Flow», by four young artists whose collective bears the same name, proposed an art that exists purely as financial speculation.

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Back in 2014, he wrote a Financial Times op - ed in which he criticized the virtual currency for being «unsuitable as a means of exchange» and said it was only attractive for two reasons: anonymity — as desired by money launderers and tax evaders — and speculation.

As the financial markets opened this morning in New York, speculation that President Trump will pursue more business - friendly policies has offset the fear of the unknown with the S&P 500 Index rising as a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companieAs the financial markets opened this morning in New York, speculation that President Trump will pursue more business - friendly policies has offset the fear of the unknown with the S&P 500 Index rising as a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companieas a surge in health - care shares offset losses in consumer and technology companies.

Canada has also asked that companies be given WTO enforceable rights to trade in derivatives, which has been described as a high - octane form of financial speculation similar to gambling.

Those moves led to speculation that Mueller may be looking for evidence of financial improprieties as part of his investigation.

Just as real estate lending fuels land speculation, so the withdrawal of such credit leaves property markets to decline, sometimes with a crash, as occurred in Japan after 1990 when its financial bubble burst.

Excessive speculation, lenient mortgage lending, and the proliferation of derivative financial products such as credit default swaps contribute to the problem.

Throughout 2014, financial traders around the world have been enthusiastically taking to bitcoin as a new area for speculation.

Banks should, he argues, be pushed to support real business investment as opposed to highly leveraged financial speculation and household consumption.

As Adair Turner shows in his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, private sector debt soared as a share of GDP in most advanced economies after the 1980s, fuelling unproductive, debt financed household consumption, housing bubbles and wasteful financial speculatioAs Adair Turner shows in his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, private sector debt soared as a share of GDP in most advanced economies after the 1980s, fuelling unproductive, debt financed household consumption, housing bubbles and wasteful financial speculatioas a share of GDP in most advanced economies after the 1980s, fuelling unproductive, debt financed household consumption, housing bubbles and wasteful financial speculation.

Prior to the meetings scheduled for today and tomorrow, vice president of Germany's Bundesbank, Claudia Buch, stated that «the role of crypto tokens in money laundering and criminal activity must also be closely examined,» but also that she doesn't «see a threat for financial stability at the moment as the speculations are generally not financed with loans and the relevant markets are rather small.»

As Silver Lake Partners» Genn Hutchins pointed out to the Financial Times in a recent interview when making the distinction between the recent pure currency speculation and the promise of the underlying technology benefits

First, regardless of short - term speculation, the present yield - seeking speculative extreme is likely to be seen in hindsight as one of the three most reckless financial bubbles in U.S. history, on par with the 1929 and 2000 extremes.

America's leading financial news channel is back in full «interest rate» coverage... as producers appear to believe that non-stop speculation (about something we already know won't happen) is good for ratings.

If Fitzgerald was attentive to the ways in which financial capital was based on speculation, perhaps this time Luhrmann is attentive to the free expenditure of capital as the basis for the celebration of one's own individual identity in terms of consumer choice.

Bluestone and Harrison believe that the essential problem with the U.S. economy can be traced to the way capital — in the form of financial resources as well as plants and equipment — «has been diverted from productive investment in our basic national industries into unproductive speculation, mergers, acquisitions, and foreign investment.

Nevertheless, it's not enough to stop the speculation that will start flying around now, as ultimately he has been linked with every club in Europe with the financial strength to potentially prise him away from the Bernabeu.

But, given the illegal behavior of the Wall Street crowd since its inception as a America's home of financial speculation, «negative» would understandably be the default position.

It then follows the consequences of allowing those basic human needs to be used as raw material for financial speculation — which include financiers profiting from a rise rather than a decline in human misery.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to speculation that Ibrahim Magu would be removed as the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency.

As the novel moves between war and peace, Spain and London, its large cast of characters includes the serial adulterer and war hero the Duke of Wellington, and the émigrés Nathan Rothschild and Frederic Winsor who will usher in the future, creating a world brightly lit by gaslight where credit and financial speculation rule.

All this doesn't mean responsible investors can't make room for a little bit of speculation — as long as they have a strong financial foundation.

In turn, financial wizards making bets with CDOs and credit default swaps used subprime mortgages as the raw material for their speculations.

Some commodities such as lumber and iron ore are bulky, costly to warehouse, and should be less susceptible to financial speculation.

Even though newcomer artists and young professionals do create hype in certain neighborhoods, the expulsion of longtime residents is a result of (international) property speculation and its subsequent utility as a tradable asset for securitizing debt — financial capitalism.

She uses references to popular culture (such as action movies, music, song videos or computer games) to give us back, in the form of a reflection, a far - reaching critique of contemporary phenomena such as migration, feminism, multiculturalism and globalization are explored and exposed within the framing realities of war and financial speculation that mark our present moment.

By questioning investments in art as proof of self - expression — through tactics of anonymity, collective agency, shared authorship, appropriated identities, delegated curating and art making, and financial speculation — works in the exhibition highlight how subjectivity has been treated as a form of living currency to exploit, market and sell to.

UNDER THE RUBRIC «The Encyclopedic Palace,» curator Massimiliano Gioni has proposed a tantalizing vision for the Venice Biennale: Forsaking the field of art as the locus and playground of commerce, financial speculation, and inflated economic value, the grand international exhibition's fifty - fifth iteration instead attends faithfully to the complex terrain of pure imaginative invention.

While it's true, as Brian just pointed out, that the media have been taking us on a bit of a rollercoaster ride regarding the will there - will there not be a new treaty at the end of COP15 speculation, The Financial

«Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good such as a financial instrument, rather than attempting to profit from the underlying financial attributes embodied in the instrument such as capital gains, interest, or dividends.»

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

He did that as an artistic statement: «The purchase of this house on my credit card is a deliberate financial transaction suggesting the link to credit, sub prime mortgages, property ownership, debt, loans, the financial markets, property speculation, boom and bust.»

The consideration of a child's welfare throughout his life required by ACA 2002, necessitates long - term future speculation by the courts, seriously prejudicing a parent, as they will be unable to show they have the potential future financial and home stability of an approved adoptor.

As the global financial crisis continues, there has already been some speculation in the press as to how it will impact upon family law worAs the global financial crisis continues, there has already been some speculation in the press as to how it will impact upon family law woras to how it will impact upon family law work.

Any arrangement with a financial services provider that involves freewheeling speculation on the market will be classified by the IRS as an investment account, not an insurance policy: Thus, it will be subject to capital gains and estate taxes.

As the offerings are often based on speculation, the country's regulators believe they are likely linked to «illegal financial activities [which] seriously disrupt the economic and financial order».

The move comes as part of the financial regulator's push through a strengthened «know - your - customer» (KYC) compliance to curb cryptocurrency speculation.

As there are signs of digital currency speculation, including Bitcoin, the financial regulators will strengthen regulations on the trade of digital currencies to protect consumers.

As for bitcoin trading, all the stringent Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering regulations point to one strategic bottom line: speculation of bitcoin must not result in any social or financial instability in China.

The report surmises that the «primary use case of Tether appears to be financial speculation, with many exchanges allowing their customers to buy and sell Tether in exchange for crypto tokens such as bitcoin ``.

Is the currently staggering price level of Bitcoin, which is to a great extent caused by hedge funds and other financial players buying Bitcoin at the moment, therefore just irrational speculation for profit as greater fool theory suggests?

«Ownership of virtual currency is very risky and full of speculation because there is no authority responsible,» the central banker continues, «there is no official administrator, there is no underlying asset underlying virtual currency price and trading value is very volatile so vulnerable to the risk bubble and prone to be used as a means of washing money and financing of terrorism, so that it can affect the stability of the financial system and harm the public.