Sentences with phrase «of financial speculation»

We spend a significant chunk of time exploring the history of financial speculation to highlight that all asset classes go through growing pains, and we should expect the same of crypto assets.

Apparently, the main reason is a fear that method of financial speculation of the cryptocurrencies is not productive.

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.

In the face of the repayment burden shrinking the U.S. economy, the Fed's idea of helping the banks «earn their way out of negative equity» is to provide opportunities for predatory finance, leading to a flood of financial speculation.

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 is human nature in our modern day capitalistic society to assume that making a lot of money from relatively little work is simply not possible, which is generally true out side of the world of financial speculation.

Edward Chancellor, author of an excellent book on past financial manias called Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (my review is available here), believes that investors will be grappling in the future with the bursting of a bubble, this time in China.