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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams

This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors scooping money out of the U.S. economy, ... The dollar is weak against the yen, but strong against almost all other currencies, which suggests to me that it's speculative money flowing into Japan.

Carl B. Weinberg

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil.

Sidney Hook

There's been a lot of speculative money going into commodities and commodity-related stocks. But there are still good long-term bets. You have just got to get your money-management right and buy when they aren't loved.

Mark Tinker

It would not shock me to see more fund buying as speculative traders try to cover their positions.

John Snell

Align is more of a speculative play, it's a young business and they are nowhere near profitability. But they have a unique product in a large marketplace.

Ben Holmes

Investors see nothing but sunny skies as far as the eye can see and therefore do not care one iota about risk. They are pursuing returns regardless of risk, and therefore the most speculative companies and investment classes are doing very well.

Whitney Tilson

The implication, albeit a speculative one, is that those activity patterns in young adults are the foothold onto which Alzheimer's disease forms.

Randy Buckner

The senator from Alaska announced that he will also take advantage of the suffering people of the Gulf Coast by tying badly needed relief funds to the speculative revenues in his drilling plan.

Bill Meadows

We want to make clear that we don't have a problem with day-trading per se, but we want to make sure that people know what they're getting into. It's very risky, it's highly speculative, some people might call it gambling ... if you want to go into this, you have to go in with your eyes open and your pockets full.

Marc Beauchamp

A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally a little more sanity is prevailing here right now.

Matt Gibson

Are the result of many factors, including low mortgage interest rates and the apparent impact of speculative investing.

Patrick Lawler

Even if the U.S. talk about military options is exaggerated or wildly speculative . . . Iran has to be aware that it's pushing the international community to take some action.

Patrick Cronin

That shows a significant drop in speculative interest.

Phil Roth

If we should downgrade Tyson Foods' long-term debt rating after our review it would place the bonds in the speculative grade (junk) category.

John Cline

It's really speculative at this point.

Cheryle Jackson

They overemphasized speculative economic harm to development while totally disregarding the real economic benefits of habitat protection.

David Hogan

All these other cases are just speculative.

Victoria Toensing

Land is so speculative right now. The price points facing developers (in the West Valley) are higher than in other markets that have proven themselves.

Brad Anderson

Some say 10% to 15% of revenue comes from roaming. Everybody is using speculative figures at the moment.

Martin Selmayr

Since the oil market now is controlled essentially by speculative forces, and speculative forces respond to events that may happen _ rather than what happens _ I think we have already seen the impact of the Iranian activity.

William Edwards

We're having one of our mildest winters, yet crude and products futures are rallying. There's a tremendous amount of speculative money going into energy futures.

James Cordier

We do not think these strong gains have been irrational or speculative, they are based in fundamentals.

Robert Parkes

To me it's entirely speculative and hypothetical.

David Shields

[Meanwhile, the financial froth of speculative bubbles--and their dangers--are another enduring legacy of the Greenspan era.] Irrational exuberance really is still with us, ... risk that in 2010 or even 2015, the stock market will be lower still in real, inflation-corrected terms, than it was in 2005.

Robert J. Shiller

There is no doubt that if Iraq torches oil wells there will be a huge amount of business for these companies. But this is a very speculative investment.

Dan Pickering

That was an extrapolative and speculative mission. They had to make speculative guesses as to whether there was water there, or methane or ethane.

Mark Brake

Many investors got burned badly by speculative growth, dot-com and concept stocks in the late 1990s. Seeing an ongoing regular cash return from an investment, therefore, made conservative investing and its income component much more attractive.

Josh Peters

The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most speculative investments you'll ever make.

Catherine Williams

It's hard for me to get excited about a cyclical recovery when I personally think that the risks of a double-dip recession are increasing. If anything, the fact that tech is outperforming underscores my notion that the U.S. market is still highly speculative.

Rich Bernstein

This has resulted into greater attention to the juniors and exploration equities, with a renewed flow of speculative capital entering this sector over the past several weeks where some strong gains have been seen.

Peter Spina

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Jimmy Swaggart

There's nothing wrong with what the Fed is doing. The problem is that when you ease like that in a speculative environment, all that capital gets misallocated.

Rich Bernstein

There are already signs of a slowdown in real estate, particularly in Florida markets that have been bid up due to speculative buying.

Chris Mccarty

In the current cycle, there would seem to be a risk of a particularly large decline in the market, given that, by many conventional metrics, we experienced a speculative bubble of extraordinary proportions.

Michael Prell

The large-cap tech area is pretty much speculative at this point. You're looking at very specific problems and you don't know what the outcome is going to be.

Michael Sprung

If you get into single-digit vacancy rates, generally speaking, you see speculative development activity coming back. And it is coming back, but it's coming back slowly.

Kevin Hayes

Future subdivisions are predictions. They are purely speculative.

Wade Valentino

U.S. Distressed Debt Monthly Monitor. In the U.S., the automotive, telecommunications, and retail/restaurant sectors showed the highest propensity for distress as a share of total speculative-grade rated issues.

Diane Vazza

In some cases it's not exactly known how animals make these sounds, and what they use them for. It's speculative.

Billy Spitzer

A weaker yen, and platinum futures prices trading above Yen 4,000/g, made the commodity 'very safe' to invest, in addition to the bullish sentiment felt across the metal futures complex with speculative funds.

Tatsuo Kageyama

The latest IMM data showed that the speculative community posted a net long U.S. dollar position for the third week in a row, with most of the gain coming at the expense of the pound.

Stephen Halmarick

It's too early to tell what happened here. That would be very speculative at this point, but certainly we will look into all aspects of it.

John Healy

It would be highly speculative right now to pick out a day. We have people on the scene surveying the damage and every day we learn more about the situation.

Mickey Driver

I think a lot of this is probably speculative buying.

Yoku Ihara

The market is in the grip of what I would call invisible hands: the investment community and the speculative community. We're going higher. It's just a matter of where.

Tom Kloza

There was a consensus for more spending for the military; it was just a question of how much. You could say the President got more [extra spending] in part because of the political climate after Sept. 11, but [that's] speculative...

Richard Kogan

The gigantic speculative bubble is popping. We're at a point where some short-term upside pressure is coming off. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see prices at a new high a year from now.

Jeffrey Christian

The weather is cooperating and helping us replenish supplies. The speculative frenzy that followed the hurricanes has cooled down. Lower refinery operating rates have led to rising crude-oil stocks as products have arrived from elsewhere.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Unfortunately, the infrastructure of Russia's securities market has developed in a speculative way.

Oleg Vyugin

This is, of course, speculative because there are certain regulatory elements as well.

Anssi Vanjoki

I see this as buying by speculative dealers, or short-term punters. It's fallen to levels low enough for dealers to toy around with. But we're keeping away from this one.

Tetsuya Ishijima

It's all speculative, but it's as good as you're going to get at night.

Mike Callahan

Most active managers are investing in what they think is a sure thing rather than their best speculative ideas. Nobody is out there trying to be a hero right now.

Russel Kinnel

We're going to do some testing. It's the prudent thing for the company to do. We're looking at every possible innovation and concept. It's more in the speculative mode right now. It would be unfair to jump to conclusions.

Walt Riker

Yes, this is a speculative craze. But that doesn't mean it can't keep going.

Richard Asplund

There's quite a bit of speculative selling because of the doom and gloom on the demand side. That demand talk is a little overplayed.

Orrin Middleton

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

Leendert Staal

We're really just replicating the system we already had in place. We at this point have made our last, best and final offer. I don't really want to speak for our negotiating team on what they'll do in the future. That's really speculative. But we are prepared to just move forward in the system we have.

Joe Mceacharn

It will be premature and speculative to comment now.

Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere

Other competitors will try to do everything they can to bring about criticism. These are speculative exercises done by the competition, positioned and designed to undermine a new drug.

Lars Ekman

When the IPO market tapers off, the more speculative types of issues tend to take a bigger beating than those more .

Joe Hammer

These concerns also led to a reduction in speculative long positions in the futures market, resulting in less speculative support for spot prices.

Gerard Burg

The fundamentals are very strong for all these (equities). They're still generating a ton of cash flow. The mining, energy, gold names, they are all in great shape. But you get this speculative excess and it's really time for a re-rating of this.

Matt Gibson

If the price of commodities drops due to a change in the fundamentals relating to China, then the speculative element of the market is running in the air without any support.

James Montier

This is primarily because of a decrease in investment and speculative real estate activity in those markets. That investment activity has been moving away from California and into Texas, where the housing market has not yet peaked.

Brad Geisen

The speculative side of the market, funds primarily, are the main drivers behind the recent price rise.

Tom Kendall

Developers or builders would speculate on the higher-end homes, figuring that the market was there. We've seen a definite pullback in that speculative market.

Dave Hughes

The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and the apparent impact of speculative investing.

Patrick Lawler

The Dow needs to gain pace above 10,500 to stand a chance of attracting fresh speculative money. Our clients have made a significant shift and are far more interested in trading UK and European stocks rather than chasing non-performing stocks.

Tom Hougaard

This is a speculative space and no one has made it work yet. So there is a lot of work to do. Frankly, I'm not sure how many of these we'll do We're going to see how this one goes and grow from there.

Jason Calacanis

If you're not a gambler and are truly risk-averse, the speculative portion of your personal investments should not be more than 10 percent.

Andrew Clark

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Ronnie Thompson

The speculative bubble has been taken out of the stock.

Geoffrey Dunn

That track record has made the latest New York guessing game as speculative as a Nasdaq investment, and a slew of names have been floated in recent months, only to come back to earth.

David Gibson

Parking itself is a very speculative revenue source. We have been hesitant to count on that as too much of a funding source.

Eric Stuckey

That could be bullish for the stock market if the household sector concludes that real estate is not the place for speculative gains any more.

Edward Yardeni