Through bailouts, quantitative easing and delays in interest-rate rises, speculative investment has been so well cushioned that – as the Guardian economics editor, Larry Elliott, puts it – financial markets are "one of the last bastions of socialism left on Earth".
Crude oil futures again flirted with the $60-per-barrel 60-per-barrel 60-per-barrelon speculative buying and fears of supply disruptions due to refinery glitches.
Traditional, wallet-busting introductory textbooks do cover topics like pollution, rising inequality, and speculative busts.
Financial froth also included what The Economist measured as the fastest-rising speculative real estate bubble on earth from 1997 to 2008.
They took turns to go off on speculative wanders, rising from the roost to patrol the adjoining fields.
The Bank of Japan earlier this month pledged to inject $1.4 trillion into its economy to shock it out of stagnation, fanning concerns about currency wars, rising asset prices and speculative buying.
Property values, rent rises, people displacement, speculative development, offshore investment; coffee shops, beards, bikes and vanishing nightlife.
Towards the end of Yellen's lengthy testimony, Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat from Colorado, brought up the possibility that the Fed's accommodative policies might give rise to another speculative bubble.
(Bellow, whose translation of Singer's Gimpel the Fool is sometimes credited with putting the Yiddish writer on the Anglophone map, must surely have looked at this masterpiece when it was originally serialised: the prose, at once richly concrete and effortlessly speculative, rises frequently to an eloquence strongly akin to Bellow's own).
These stocks rose sharply in speculative trading last week but came under pressure after E*Trade was hit by technical problems that shut down the trading system several times.
