The most recent evidence of asset speculation in Chinas commodity markets has been for garlic, which has seen unprecedented gains as speculators have entered the market, Morgan Stanley said.
And if bond or derivative markets dominated by asset managers and speculators seize up, will central banks feel an obligation to provide extra liquidity?
When asset prices rise, speculators can then borrow against their increased wealth, helping to drive prices even higher.If the world's largest central banks tightened monetary policy aggressively enough, they would bring this process to an end.
This presents a challenge for indebted countries in 2005: can those that must roll over large amounts of debt cope with higher borrowing costs and asset sales by speculators?If the global economy performs well, they probably can.
In roughly the past 12 months, the number of cryptocurrencies listed on CoinMarketCap.com, a main reference site for digital asset developers and speculators alike, has increased significantly.
They play on the fears that arose from the economic insecurity of the Great Recession to put forth a scheme that is sure to set loose the asset strippers, profiteers, speculators, and other "entrepreneurs" to pick apart the public pension systems.
Speculators speculate more, hedgers hedge more.
Photograph: MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent, has the details: Ireland's state-owned "Bad Bank", which took over the toxic, debt ridden assets of property speculators during the financial crash, has sold its portfolio of empty flats, houses and buildings in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.
Speculators will speculate.
Ignore the New Labour spin, he says, and you see a nation that no longer makes anything, a "gigantic casino spinning speculators' money, while asset-stripping vultures shred company pension schemes and turn the few remaining factories into luxury flats and shopping malls".
