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speculative English

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speculative

(= notional) not based on fact or investigation a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs speculative knowledge (= bad, risky, high-risk) not financially safe or secure a bad investment high risk investments anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky speculative business enterprises (= inquisitive) showing curiosity if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive raised a speculative eyebrow

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Of course, the whole thing is of a highly speculative nature, particularly the supernatural aspect.
I found it speculative, dangerous and full of..
They become speculative. and suspicious.
Anything that I would say would be purely speculative.
It has no basis, either speculative or proven, in historical fact.
You are here to go beyond the theoretical, the speculative, the fanciful.
A very speculative event, sir.
That remark is speculative.
According to scientifiic journals, projections on this kind of genetic engineering are at best speculative and futuristic.
All of this is purely speculative. - Your Honor, I would like to submit. into evidence Defense Exhibit One. a ballistics report which clearly supports my theory.
It says here that humans didn't even have currency until 5,000 years ago let alone banking, speculative investments or a unified global economy.
His interpretation would be speculative and irrelevant.
Regardless, your study remains inconclusive. Speculative at best.
People are intrigued by the speculative technology on Star Trek.
It's purely a speculative thing, far from foolproof and we can't afford to pay too much.
This map seemed based as much on a speculative appreciation of landscape as on anything permanent.
Armeror was a generous donor and had made speculative plans with an American Foundation to purchase Bardsey Island as a sanctuary and last resting place for severely afflicted VUE victims.
I see you haven't lost your street instincts. I have some evidence. and a great deal more speculative information that. that's exactly what it is.
Never made a speculative investment in his life.
That remark is speculative. I move that it be stricken.
It's a speculative piece, apparently the editor liked it, but it was probably just because of my age.
His interpretation will be speculative and irrelevant.
Speculative, at best.
Even though some of you may feel. that its practical application is still somewhat speculative.
We could make a case, but the damages would be speculative.
So this artists depiction is purely speculative, and surely way over the top.
That's highly speculative.
Speculative.
Very speculative.
As stated, this job is strictly speculative.
Incidentally, this is a prediction of the lives of people in the future, taken from Mudaiki, a speculative fiction work by Edo dime novel author Harumachi Koikawa.
Great Depression comparable to the one of the 1930s if not worse, because this one is imposed by nature rather than being a speculative bubble.

News and current affairs

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble.
In contrast to the other two psychological causes, speculative contagion has a natural end.
A speculative bubble, sustaining itself solely by reaction to price increases, cannot go on forever.
Oil prices may fall once these shocks dissipate, but speculative effects could keep them relatively high, weakening the world economy and depressing stock markets.
Expectations become self-fulfilling, oil prices rise, a speculative bubble is born.
The resulting supply surge drives down prices, reinforces expectations of further declines, and produces the inverse of a speculative bubble: a collapse in prices.
Speculative pressures are likely to have been at work, influencing the decisions of OPEC and many others.
NEW HAVEN - People frequently ask me, as someone who has written on market speculation, where the next big speculative bubble is likely to be.
Big speculative bubbles are rare events.
Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.
NEW HAVEN - A speculative bubble is a social epidemic whose contagion is mediated by price movements.
In fact, speculative bubbles are just one example of social epidemics, which can be even worse in the absence of financial markets.
In a speculative bubble, the contagion is amplified by people's reaction to price movements, but social epidemics do not need markets or prices to get public attention and spread quickly.
Some examples that we might relate to better can be found in the communist, centrally planned economies of much of the twentieth century, which also had no speculative markets.
If investors know that a liquidity squeeze is no longer possible, they will refrain from speculative attacks on solvent countries.
Researchers there argue that in fragile speculative industries (and finance has certainly been in that category in recent years) it is hard for investors to monitor those who manage their money.
Since 2000, we have seen the most dramatic evidence ever of speculative bubbles in markets for owner-occupied homes.
Indeed, in a volatile speculative market, where people buy and sell in anticipation of further price movements, history confirms that price movements will be hard to explain, even after the fact.
But the recent speculative bubbles have in effect boosted the percentage of land value in home value.
In many countries, governments in 2009 responded to the collapse of housing bubbles by instituting policies aimed at supporting these speculative markets.
The root problem is that financial markets can now mobilize tens of billions of dollars for speculative purposes.
On the one hand, the euro protected the eurozone, particularly Germany's export economy, from speculative attacks and the chaos of currency volatility.
The rapid increase thus appears to be mostly the result of speculative momentum that occurred before the interest-rate cuts.

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