It's a store of value, and it's an object of speculation.
This makes the inner life of the concierge, like that of the psychiatrist or the pastor, the object of speculation.
Each financial innovation that came along became the object of speculation that was fuelled by cheap money.
The source of Mr. Trump's proposed $55 million investment has been an object of speculation among Trump Hotels bondholders and analysts.
The four years that followed were formative for mother and son — and are a subject of curiosity and an object of speculation for many Americans today.
One cabinet minister not to resign was Michael Gove, who had been the object of speculation after reportedly turning down the Brexit secretary job.
The company's culture has been an object of speculation for years, fuelled in part by its publication, in 2009, of a "freedom and responsibility" slide show for would-be employees (in January, the company had 5,500 employees globally).
Revis's future has been the object of speculation since the publication of a CBS Sports report that the Jets would consider trading him, a story that broke on the day Idzik was introduced as general manager.
In its latest assault in the cola wars, Pepsi has beaten the Coca-Cola Company to the shelves with its reduced-sugar cola, long the object of speculation by beverage industry watchers.
"A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter, she was an object of speculation and venerations, gossip and legend," Ms. Schiff wrote in the opening chapter.
