Sentence examples for speculative element from inspiring English sources

Steep price gains had a marked speculative element.

What did that fantastical, or speculative, element offer you as a writer?

So, it seems like there's some speculative element that took place.

Very few of his novels, in fact, could be described as straight science fiction, although his fiction always had a speculative element.

Regulators are determined to stamp out the speculative element of the market, which helped drive prices up before the financial crisis.

While the bank says they were intended to offset other risks on the books, the strategy also appeared to have a speculative element.

Only the speculative elements of value that may arise from the "accomplishment or expectation" of the merger are excluded.

Speculative elements were set aside in a formula that consciously drew on the ancient, mythical archetypes treated by Joseph Campbell in "The Hero With a Thousand Faces".

Buffett's tough tone will add ballast to the drive by the Obama administration to reform the banking system under the so-called Volcker rule separating banks' retail operations from the riskier speculative elements.

Although the model certainly still contains speculative elements, we believe it provides the most consistent interpretation of platinum single-crystal electrochemistry currently available, and presents an important and significant improvement over previous interpretations.

As Jeremy Stein of the Federal Reserve noted in February, speculative elements have returned to the markets, including "covenant-lite" loans and payment-in-kind debt (where interest is paid not as cash but as more debt).