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He argued that taxing short-term movements of money in and out of different currencies would curb speculation and create some maneuvering room for domestic macroeconomic management.
The beauty of a Tobin tax is that it would discourage short-term speculation without having much adverse effect on long-term international investment decisions.
But Xi’s mysterious vanishing act, in which he dropped from public view for almost two weeks in September – after abruptly canceling meetings with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the prime minister of Singapore (rare occurrences for the protocol-fixated Chinese leadership) – has stirred more speculation.
The IMF has fallen under their spell, making the world safer for speculation and perhaps more dangerous for the rest of us.
Europe has imported from the United States some of the negative aspects of the market, such as casino-like speculation.
But speculation is not necessarily destabilizing.
Public support for the government has fallen below 50%, and there is much speculation about whether Merkel will seek reelection as her party’s candidate for another term.
Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.
All in all, Greenspan served the United States and the world well through his stewardship of monetary policy, especially by what he did not do: trying to stop stock and housing speculation by halting the economy in its tracks.
Wen’s remarks led to speculation that Shenzhen, which set the pace for China’s economic development, could soon become a “special political zone.”
Speculation about the possibility of a “new Trump” peaked in early September, when the president suddenly cut a deal with Democratic congressional leaders.
This delay has provoked much speculation.
Zardari’s sudden return fueled speculation about his future, but, more importantly, about the future of civilian rule in Pakistan.
New firms must be created, and modern financial markets are better at speculation and exploitation than they are at providing funds for new enterprises, especially small and medium-size companies.
The news in Sarkozy’s favored media outlet Journal du Dimanche that the couple plan to marry touched off a flurry of fevered speculation on when the happy event might occur.
This encourages short-side speculation, which places downward pressure on the underlying bonds.
Unlike most central banks, the ECB cannot act as a lender of last resort, which, in conjunction with the absence of common bonds (Eurobonds), induced large-scale speculation on intra-European national debts.
This is not mere speculation.
Some of the banks did report earnings in the first quarter of this year, mostly based on accounting legerdemain and trading profits (read: speculation).
Decisions like the one the US is facing – whether or not to join the AIIB – should not be based on speculation about other countries’ motivations, but rather on an estimation of what can be accomplished by choosing one way or the other.
Such studies have not yet been done on most of the traits where speculation is popular, but they have been done on some traits of medical interest.
In such cases, silence may be wiser than speculation.
But that is a canard: real-estate speculation, not privatization, has been the real source of undeserved wealth in Japan.
While the borrowing lasted, and speculation took the forefront, everybody could dream.Russia is now back to the starting line.
So there is now a risk that the European framework will create an avenue for financial speculation.
Speculation on Africa's basic products and raw materials, which has driven down prices for most commodities over the last four decades, might be addressed by creating a mechanism that ties, for an agreed time, the prices of these items to those of industrial goods and services.
Media fascination whipped up speculation and interest.
As it happens, this prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed scientific research but was lifted from a report by the World Wildlife Fund, which was repeating an unproven speculation by a single researcher.
There is room in economics for grand speculation – some part intuition, some part common sense, and some part ideology.
But there is a danger that the public mistakes speculation for truth, only because of the speculator’s credentials and assertiveness.
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