After too many months of campaigning, speculation and red-carpet dry runs masquerading as other award ceremonies, the Academy Awards will finally be dished out tonight – yet this week's DVD release slate looks more like a boulevard of broken Oscar dreams.
Mr. Rattner has been an enthusiastic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, and speculation has long swirled about his own political ambitions.
Last month, one of the Kochs' top political operatives, Marc Short, left their main spending group, Freedom Partners, to join the Rubio campaign, triggering speculation that the billionaire brothers would throw their outsized financial support behind Rubio, too.
Over the past few days, Sir Michael Hintze and Crispin Odey, two top hedge fund managers, have committed themselves as financial backers of the Vote Leave campaign, raising speculation that the City's hedge fund community as a whole could throw its financial weight behind the leave campaign.
Gordon Brown has been credited by some for saving the Union with passionate speeches in the Scottish referendum campaign, sparking speculation that he may, or should, return to the political frontline.
Amid this profoundly dysfunctional existential wrangling over the fulfillment of a campaign slogan, speculation about the 2020 presidential election has begun in earnest.
On Saturday night, rumors spread about possible defections within the Trump campaign, including speculation about the fate of Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager and most prominent woman in his campaign.
Her willingness to target Trump has not gone unnoticed by Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign, raising speculation that Clinton could name Warren her vice presidential running mate.
Bill Clinton is asking his wife's supporters to help pay off lingering debt from her 2008 presidential campaign as speculation grows on whether she will run again in 2016.
His party knows from previous campaigns how speculation about demands for ministerial posts can make a party look grasping and unprincipled.
