But speculators ultimately are beholden to the same economic forces as everybody else.
There are instances of early buyers flipping these brand-name condos for a profit, but speculators who come late to the party are unlikely to do so well.
But speculators could suddenly lose faith in the U.S. dollar.
They like to yell at the speculators, but the speculators moved in only when the currency collapses had become inevitable.
The big banks can manipulate future metal commodity prices but small speculators are learning the game by reducing risk and removing stops.
But these speculators prefer to spend their days in the company of others like themselves, surrounded by PCs and the drone of CNBC.
But once speculators became convinced that the SNB would prevent the franc from appreciating, there was no longer any opportunity for speculation, so speculation stopped.
Obama decries these creditors as "speculators, " but in truth, those speculators are the ones with the capital necessary to keep struggling businesses afloat.
Citigroup said the buying by speculators is supportive, but the bank cautions that speculators are not far from the all-time record of 238, 943 set Oct. 13, 2009 for the disaggregated report.
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One option is to reimpose capital controls for a temporary period (which would punish speculators but might reduce confidence in the financial markets).
HedgeStreet admits its site right now is best for speculators, but its hedging viability will improve with liquidity.
But the mistake the speculators had made was to overvalue their goods, and to "bank on" (as we still say) their holding their value over time.
This may be bad news to many urban pundits and big city speculators, but it also should create new opportunities for more perceptive, and less jaded, investors.
But that would stop speculators from buying the debt too.
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But Najarian guesses the speculators have already made their money.
But penalising the prudent and rewarding speculators can, at best, only be part of the process.
That creates a dilemma for developing-country governments: they may want to head off inflation with higher interest rates but that would only encourage the speculators.
Although the economic pain that is being inflicted on Russia and the ex-tigers is out of all proportion to the policy errors of their governments, the fact remains that the vulnerability to financial crisis was created not by international speculators and other bogeymen but by woefully inadequate oversight of domestic finance, private, public and quasi-public.
Speculators were indeed at work but there is no evidence of hoarding.
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Speculators may accelerate these turns, but when they bet rightly this actually smoothes the spike by moving the increase forward.
Individual speculators may lose from the resulting busts but society gains from their overoptimistic investments.
Putting the blame on speculators and greed has a powerful appeal but, as this special report has argued, it is too simplistic.
But along with regular investors, the trend has attracted speculators who are using leverage to buy homes and flip them.
In the legacy report, large speculators remain net-long in silver, but just as in the disaggregated report, non-commercials have whittled away at that position since Feb. 12.
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As prices for precious metals rose going into the reporting period, speculators sought to increase their bullish holdings for all but platinum in both the legacy and disaggregated weekly commitment of traders reports released by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the week ended June 5.
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Many speculators were wiped out by the October 1929 Crash, but Keynes managed his feat without any exposure to U.S. stocks.
But the dominant new group of buyers in Vegas are the very speculators who might flee at the first sign of a weakening market.
It was bad enough that the Fed held rates far too low, but at least a fig leaf of uncertainty kept the most brazen speculators in partial paralysis.
But investor skittishness about the real estate market is slipping away, and speculators are seeing value in distressed markets.
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