In the winter and early spring, "the market reached ungodly levels of speculation," said Gregory Smith, an analyst at Chase H & Q who covers online brokerage firms.
Like many of his peers, Adrian combines elements from genre writing (The Children's Hospital is by turns science-fictional, fantasy and thriller) with insights from the higher reaches of literary-theoretical speculation.
Apple's quarterly earnings, just announced, have been the subject of speculation reaching into hysteria and chicanery.
South Africa defeated Italy to reach the final, and after weeks of speculation that a compromise might be reached to play at a neutral site, the Indian government decided to boycott the final.
If a deal is reached, it would end months of speculation about a combination of Delta and Northwest, which would create the world's largest airline.
After weeks of speculation Inter reached an agreement for Balotelli's transfer to Manchester City on 12 August 2010 for €21.8 million.
Now Bitcoin is reaching new heights thanks to a combination of speculation on future value and genuine, undeniable usefulness.
That was also true of credit default swaps, which became an instrument of speculation instead of insurance and reached an astounding $62tn in volume.
The creation of the world we know is central to religious and secular world views; and until recently the power to shape landscapes lay beyond the reach of mortals, inviting speculation as to a role for divine intervention.
On Monday there were 269,000 hits; on Tuesday, as the crescendo of speculation about when the company would announce its stockmarket flotation reached Mahlerian proportions, there were 293,000.
