Speculators
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As a result, many states feared federal assumption would mean that their taxes would go to pay northern
speculators
or to retire the debt of big borrowers, like Massachusetts.
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Early in the story we are treated to a colorful but talky exposition which sets the plot in motion: On the day the Civil War starts, Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold), itinerant peddler, and his partners in crime (Cary Grant and Jack Oakie) devise a scheme to buy cotton cheaply in the South, smuggle it North and sell it at a high price to New England mills, thus launching the career of one of the fabled financial
speculators
of the 19th century.
Unprecedented recent purchases of oil contracts by non-commercial
speculators
in the New York and London futures markets suggest that sanctions may already be priced in, with Brent oil trading at $78 a barrel.
Others, such as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, see the country’s problems as difficult but manageable, and complain of interference from ill-intentioned foreign
speculators.
A flexible exchange rate dictated by market forces would eliminate the opportunities for currency
speculators
to make one-way bets on renminbi appreciation, thereby diminishing the stock of hot money that currently accounts for the bulk of China’s capital-account surplus.
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