Nevertheless, he neglected his administrative duties and occupied himself with financial speculations and hunting.
He remained there for two years, engaging in profitable financial speculations that enabled him to rebuild his fortune.
Da Ponte spent some time in England There he became involved in a series of naive financial speculations, & had been sent to jail some 30 times for debts not his own.
drive them to spend excessively to impress their palates, vanities, friends or financial speculations, I'd suggest the Protestant admonition: "The average man has five senses: touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing.
The acquisition was later chronicled and popularized by award-winning journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar in their book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (1990), which introduced many people to the world of hostile takeovers and financial speculations in corporate America.
Result: wild land and financial speculations (local banks, no longer under the disciplinary thumb of a central bank, went on lending binges), followed by a bone-crushing, deficit-creating depression.
