Stock is convenient for purposes of speculation, because of the ease with which it is transferred from hand to hand, as well as for other reasons.
When land is withheld unused for purposes of speculation in its rising value, not only do surrounding sites become more costly to rent or lease, but less entrepreneurs or work people can afford them.
"Uncontrolled foreign investement for the purposes of speculation is actually destructive and it is a feature of a housing market that has utterly failed...We expect it [the ban] will be permanent, " said Twyford, who added the government would increase the length of tenancies for renters and introduce legislation ensuring rental properties were insulated, warm and dry within 100 days.
The purpose of this speculation was both pragmatic and soteriological: if one could determine how this creation came into being, one could reverse it or overcome it and be saved.
Many of the archaeologists and some of the American Indians who lobbied to keep the stone mound acknowledge that its original purpose is a matter of speculation.
Its purpose is also a matter of speculation, whether it was an elaborate outer bailey for defence or used for storage and stabling.
The incident fueled all manner of speculation about the purpose and owner of the lines, he said.
A statement released Wednesday from Google's press center helps end weeks of speculation about the purpose of structures on two barges, one being built in the San Francisco Bay, another now floating off Portland, Maine.
Clearly, we are in no imminent danger of Ithkuil becoming established as the koine of the realm — its purpose lies more in the domain of speculation than in that of implementation.
That sense of purpose led to speculation that the army would leverage public anger to mount a major assault on the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan, in the tribal belt — a longstanding demand of the Obama administration.
