There is almost no speculative finance around, so almost no speculative development.
The godparents of the critical design movement, their work weaves speculative narratives around objects, producing designs that extrapolate current trends and offer witty critical commentaries on contemporary culture.
There were so many speculative buyers around before, people far more interested in buying cheap art and selling it a few months later to turn a profit.
There was little speculative activity around homes, however, which were usually viewed as rapidly depreciating assets whose value was to be found almost entirely in physical buildings, not the land beneath them.
While Second Life's limitations have caused a number of early investors — mainly corporations who bought virtual property as a potential marketing tool — to pull out, there is still plenty of speculative hovering around virtual worlds.
In the first three decades of the 20th century, he built up an industrial empire founded on the most humble of innovations, the Swedish-made safety match, that lit a fire of speculative excess around the world creating, then burning through, fortunes that would be measured now in the billions.
"There's a lot of speculative demand around cryptocurrencies, which is why the price is going up so quickly, but people need to think about how these technologies are being used in real life and how they can improve people's businesses". Yoshitaka expects this boom to happen within the next few years and has been steering SBI towards blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a result.
Dealbook can put this fact in the bank, triple-A rate it, sell speculative derivatives around it, and never worry about it failing.
With Kanye West finally out of the hospital after more than a week of treatment, the speculative drumbeats around "why did he snap?" and "what's going on?" were still going strong. .
With Kanye West finally out of the hospital after more than a week of treatment, the speculative drumbeats around "why did he snap?" and "what's going on?" were still going strong.
