A modest currency adjustment at a time of strong speculation could attract yet bigger inflows of hot money, as investors bet on further appreciation.
At a time of doleful speculation that traditional printed books will be killed off by the explosion of interest in electronic and digital formats, his enthusiasm is unwavering.
The declaration comes at a time of intense speculation in Washington that preliminary plans are advancing to take military action against Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy fails, an idea Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld dismissed Tuesday as "fantasy land".
Her maneuvering comes at a time of growing speculation about a hard-fought contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between her and another possible hopeful, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
But it will be some weeks before investigators conclude extensive toxicology testing, which leaves plenty of time for speculation as to who might want to get rid of Patarkatsishvili and his $12 billion fortune.
Long before any teenagers started twitching, the conversation at the coffee shop in town or at the counter of Jim DuPont's television-repair shop would turn, from time to time, to speculation about what kind of waste Le Roy's manufacturing plants might have left behind.
On August 31 , 1687 Arnauld wrote to Hessen-Rheinfels, saying, "It would be preferable if [Leibniz] gave up, at least for a time, this sort of speculation, and applied himself to the greatest business he can have, the choice of the true religion… a decision that is of such importance for his salvation" (LA, 110).
So the next time the wizards of speculation produce yet another financial collapse, who ya gonna call?
It, too, has a social relevance today, dealing as it does with a familial pyramid scheme in a time of booming stock speculation.
It's set in the American west in 1878, during the golden age of fossil-hunting known as the "Bone Wars", and follows the "notorious rivalry between real-life paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh during a time of intense fossil speculation and discovery", says HarperCollins. "When I came across the Dragon Teeth manuscript in the files, I was immediately captivated.
