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The only foreseeable benefit to be gained through a devaluation is a reduction in uncertainty as an end will be put to the rampant speculation on when the RMB will be devalued.
Given that Europe’s prospects are highly dependent on external factors, any speculation about its future must account for global conditions.
Easing restrictions on development would curb property speculation and allow cities to grow, create more jobs, and increase the supply of affordable housing.
This added further fuel to right-wing media speculation that she is in poor health;Trump added the sexist charge that she lacks the “stamina” to be president.
First, thanks to an effective – albeit porous – capital-control regime in China, short-term “hot money” (capital coming into China aimed at arbitrage, rent-seeking, and speculation) could not enter (and then leave) freely and swiftly.
There is even speculation that China was warned of the looming coup in Zimbabwe, if not consulted beforehand.
Since the Fed started to curb its QE program, there has been constant speculation over just when its current accommodative monetary policy will end.
After all, capitalism is practically a synonym for speculation, isn’t it?
Capitalists put their money where they think it can get the highest return; that is what we call speculation.
Finally, amid widespread speculation that Venezuela may indeed default on up to $80 billion of foreign debt, it is not surprising that yields on its sovereign debt have hit 15%.
There is reason to doubt that a great deal of commercial activity – gambling, selling and advertising alcohol, financial speculation, and so forth – generates any net economic benefits at all.
Limiting the ECB’s purchases of government bonds ex ante, as the German court requires, would be nonsensical, because it could easily invite market speculation.
Failure to implement the spending cuts and revenue increases needed to reduce the budget deficit would undermine confidence in the economy’s prospects and increase speculation that the government would eventually resort to some form of debt repudiation.
No, the author has many of his facts wrong and goes beyond reasonable speculation, which brings him disdain from scientists.
The Limits of Capitalism with Communist CharacteristicsNEW DELHI – As US President Barack Obama prepares to embark on an historic visit to Cuba, the future of the communist-ruled island is the subject of widespread speculation.
Tensions between the Greek and German governments ran high, and speculation about whether Greece would remain in the eurozone escalated.
There is much speculation about the reasoning behind the government’s decisions in May to dismiss the pro-Hezbollah chief of airport security and investigate Hezbollah’s private telecommunications network, which sparked the confrontations.
The United Kingdom’s budget situation is worse than Spain’s, but the certainty that the Bank of England would prevent speculation on the UK’s debt is sufficient to reassure investors.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have become associated in recent years with price volatility, rampant speculation, and – to be frank – a great deal of theft.
Today, as Clinton prepares to leave office, there is widespread speculation that she will seek to succeed President Barack Obama in 2016.
Blaming Islam is Too EasyThe terrorist attacks in America and the war against the Taliban have incited wide speculation about the relationship between culture and economic development.
Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape – usually on the Internet – and spreads virally around the globe.
This is why so many threads of discussion turn from potentially interesting citizen speculation to hate speech and paranoia.
There was speculation that Sri Lanka might host one of those bases; but this may no longer be politically viable, following President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s surprise defeat in January’s snap presidential election.
These assertions were not made as speculation, but rather as scientific claims about what the future held in store.
Speculation about election outcomes in the immediate future is more fascinating than discussions about eurozone reforms.
If the region’s currencies were overvalued, inviting speculation on devaluations, it was more the fault of Japan's stagnation and the depreciation of the yen than of their own policies.
Some of those who brought the world to this perilous point with their toxic financial instruments and unscrupulous speculation may even turn out to profit from these reforms.
He also harbors a deep distrust of financial markets and often advocates more regulation, and sees the strong euro as a threat to French industry and the result of speculation, which has already provoked serious clashes with the European Central Bank.
In the space of a few short months, the prospect of a President Donald Trump has gone from preposterous speculation to terrifying possibility.
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