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speculate, you can't accumulate, if you don't
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speculate, you can't accumulate, if you don't proverbial saying, mid 20th century; meaning that outlay (and some degree of risk) is necessary if real gain is to be achieved.
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Fresh speculation on the accumulative effect of speculative speculation; Game On sky blues Sky Blue Saturday A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK TAKE ON THE CITY WEEK - WITH DAVID WARDALE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 2/10/2007; 659 words
; SPECULATION is growing that the speculation growing around the identity of the next Coventry City manager may be based on growing speculation that the speculation is growing. Club insiders might be brushing...
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Imagination and Speculation as Historical Impulse: Engaging Uncertainties within Art Education History and Historiography
Magazine article from: Studies in Art Education; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...imagination and speculation, which in turn...suppositional wonderings, speculations, playful musings...be filled with speculation" (Walch &...and supported speculations may lead the historian...use of grounded speculation.1 Any attempt...questions and speculations we can never ...
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Sen. Dorgan Introduces End Oil Speculation Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...Dakota, has introduced the End Oil Speculation Act of 2008 (S. 3183), legislation...Commission to take action to end excessive speculation." The bill, introduced on June 24...of the legislation follows:End Oil Speculation Act of 2008S. 3183To amend the Commodity...
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Recipe for disaster.(How Rampant Speculation Blew Up the Economy)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Risk Management; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...overall market reduction. Top off with wild speculation in a booming real estate market. Stir until...nearly every case of such market crises, speculation has been a factor. How Speculation Works Imagine being at an auction when a...
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Congress to tackle speculation after recess.
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily; 6/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; No fewer than a dozen anti-speculation measures have sprung up in Congress...legislation to curb excessive speculation in the energy markets appears...move beyond arguing over whether speculation in so-called "paper oil" is...
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Market-hampering land speculation: fiscal and monetary origins and remedies.(Special Invited Issue: Money, Trust, Speculation and Social Justice)(Part 3: Trust and Speculation)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the most basic sense, speculation IS a method of dealing...that "Every action is speculation." Information about the...in differing financial speculations. In the financial sense, speculation is the utilization of one...
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Speculation in the financial system as a 'dissipative structure'
Magazine article from: Seoul Journal of Economics; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...is trying to understand the financial speculation through concepts from the non-equilibrium...By using NET I argue that financial speculation must be understood as a dynamics occurring...explaining the usual phenomena of financial speculation, financial panic, financial crisis...
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LEVIN, BINGAMAN, HARKIN INTRODUCE BILL TO CRACK DOWN ON EXCESSIVE SPECULATION IN ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE MARKETS
Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 9/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...Introduce Bill to Crack Down on Excessive Speculation in Energy and Agriculture Markets Contacts...legislation today to prevent excessive speculation and price manipulation in U.S. energy...agricultural markets. The Prevent Excessive Speculation Act would make changes in four critical...
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Football: Davies thriving on transfer speculation; COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...the Coca- Cola Championship but the speculation concerning his future, which has shadowed...impressed with how Davies has handled the speculation and even suggested that the rumours...had too much going on in his mind. Speculation affects ways, Mowbray said. We had...
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SENATE FLOOR STATEMENT ON STOP EXCESSIVE ENERGY SPECULATION ACT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Senate Energy Subcommittee on the role of speculation in rising energy prices. As a result...several measures to address the rampant speculation and lack of regulation of energy markets...price spikes of energy is increased speculation in the energy markets. Traders are...
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Speculation
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Speculation Speculation is the acquisition of an asset exclusively for resale motivated...anticipation of capital appreciation and gain. Most commonly, speculation occurs in anticipation of a price increase such that buying temporally...
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speculation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
speculation practice of engaging in business in...earn unusually large profits, but most speculation consists in the buying and selling of...when a commodity is in shortage and speculation drives up its price. Public outcry...
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Land Speculation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LAND SPECULATION LAND SPECULATION. The favorite object of speculation in America before the era of big business was public land. Investors could buy it cheaply in large quantities and withhold it from market, if they had sufficient capital to...
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Muscle Shoals Speculation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MUSCLE SHOALS SPECULATION MUSCLE SHOALS SPECULATION. During the Confederation period, the Muscle Shoals region...government. BIBLIOGRAPHY Whitaker, A. P. "The Muscle Shoals Speculation, 1783 – 1789." Mississippi Valley Historical...
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Land Law and Land Speculation Over the Appalachians
Book article from: American Eras
Land Law and Land Speculation Over the Appalachians Dividing Up...support their move westward. Land Speculation. Businessmen who participated in...oldest activities — land speculation — made up the third group...
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