Sentences with phrase «speculative ventures»

Taking an overly optimistic view of speculative investments: Some investors generally put too high a value on speculative ventures.

As this slows down the economy, speculative ventures get hit hardest.

Beyond that, there's a lot of capital to finance speculative ventures, and to catch bad ones when they fall.

If a person lost money on speculative ventures like bitcoin they would be too humiliated to put their face forward because that would involve admitting to a huge mistake that they were so sure of before they would sink tens of thousands in

And though Director Oliver Stone puts the spotlight on the danger of speculative ventures, the film really fails to do more than say, «We have a problem.»

But with speculative ventures where the common doesn't pay a dividend anyway, that is a small safeguard.

He told Bloomberg Daybreak Europe's Guy Johnson and Matt Miller that bitcoin remains a highly speculative venture which the banking system must respond to.

But while bitcoin is a speculative venture in developed nations, in Venezuela it has become a tool to keep families afloat, with some Venezuelans purchasing a small fraction of one coin to build their savings.

I commented in Money Sense Magazine in May of last year that this asset class should be considered part of an investor's total portfolio where alternative investments including commodities, speculative ventures, derivatives, early stage companies, etc. should be no more that 5 to 10 % of the investor's portfolio.

The company's chief financial officer recently took an even firmer stance that cryptocurrencies are volatile, speculative ventures, operating unregulated, in the grips of a financial bubble.

«You are asking someone to put a large amount of money on the table in a speculative venture,» Pelham Jones, chairman of the Private Rhino Owners Association, told Reuters.

Selecting which books to feature in BookPage is a speculative venture.

Dark Horse (whose manga sales went up this year) and Digital Manga (who wants to hire scanlators for no up - front pay, just back - end profits, in a speculative venture), for example, don't blame them for sales difficulties.

Even though it's a speculative venture at best.

In the 18th century, pioneering economist Adam Smith said that the public tends to overvalue «speculative ventures».

Near the top is the fact that this house was built as a speculative venture; it has no subsidies, no grants or incentives.

And it is good to see a Ministry concerned with justice being prepared to put up some seedcorn money for a speculative venture like this.