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I believe what would help is a financial transactions tax to diminish over-speculation.
Lynn Parramore: Conversation with Jeff Madrick, Author of Age of Greed (Part Two) Lynn Parramore 2011
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If Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt had moved to curb over-speculation and otherwise continued the economic policies of Harding and Coolidge, the nation may have been able to have avoided the great depression.
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The reality is only a tiny fraction of borrowers can truly afford homes due to over-speculation and hype.
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So it's probably a perfect case of over-speculation from this team.
Miami Heat reportedly frustrated with Coach Erik Spoelstra Cindy Boren 2010
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The Panic of 1873 exposed over-speculation which continued to wreak havoc on the nation's economy for months.
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None of the chapters are long, but then they aren't fluffed up with pretentious over-speculation, either.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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It is about recognition that over-speculation is a persistent habit of markets and should be restrained but with ample room for market price setting.
Jeff Madrick: We Need Regulation: The Mythology of Moral Hazard 2008
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Driven by over-leveraging in mortgage markets, over-speculation in oil markets, and the over-spending and over-borrowing on the global war on terrorism, the American economy has been teetering at the edge of a significant course correction if not a major collapse.
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He notes how "over-investment and over-speculation" on borrowed money got us here.
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The underlying cause of the recession is a downturn in agricultural exports brought on by the end of the Crimean War in Europe, as well as over-speculation in railroads and real estate.
Lurching Toward Gomorrah: More Signs of An Unstoppable Economic Meltdown 2008
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