Rule of thumb (observed with my own eyes/ears): are you a VC, a psychopath, or under age 20?
You *might* (with high probability) be a HUGE fan of AI and in fact "long" (if not also highly leveraged, esp via the newest crypto bubble) on it as a speculative investment.
In less than a year, the #Republican Party is driving a #record number of #bankruptcies across #agriculture, #apparel, #retail, #banking, #realestate, #health, #manufacturing and #technology spaces.
The #GOP is #crushing #American #business, and #Americans, while a handful of #speculators, #fraudsters and #traitorous #criminals become rich beyond dreams of avarice.
"American-made athletic clothing brand liquidating, no bankruptcy"
The race to protect #homes from #speculators post- #wildfire
https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-race-to-protect-homes-from-speculators-post-wildfire/
Speculators Drive Oil Futures to Most Bearish Positioning Since 2009
Money managers have continued to sell off WTI crude futures contracts and are now the most bearish on…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #bearishsentiment #Brentcrude #CME #commoditystrategy #COTreport #ICE #IL #Israel #netshort #oilfutures #speculators #WTIcrude
https://www.newsbeep.com/69652/
#Tariffs don't create jobs.
Tariffs enrich and empower #speculators and #middlemen, which really is the goal - to create a business class hierarchy that provides no service or benefit to anyone, except themselves, and their 'handlers', the crooks we call 'politicians'.
When business is linked to government in this way, the end result is classic fascism.
And here we are.
At the end of the day, landlords would rather have an apartment sit empty than give someone a break. It’s wrong...
When will #landlords and #speculators answer for their role in the #housing and #affordability crisis? https://cultmtl.com/2025/06/when-will-landlords-and-speculators-answer-for-their-role-in-the-housing-and-affordability-crisis-montreal-quebec-canada-airbnb/
#gougegougegouge
#polMTL #MTLpoli
#montreal
#assnat #polQC #QCpoli
#cdnpoli #polcan
#speculators play an outsized role given the volatility in the market. The plant itself also makes responding to price changes difficult. It takes 4y for a tree to bear fruit,
In our next nation, let’s manage #speculators more closely. I’m just looking at the 2008 subprime #mortgage crisis and today’s #Economy and maybe we need to rein in speculators a little.
BoT ought to revise #exchangerate #policy
"BoT bought up $5.8b in July, $6b in Aug, & $2.6b in 1H Sept.. danger of this is foreign #speculators wld be loaded w #Thai baht #BoT used to purchase $s fr.. Some 17% of 🇹🇠#exports go to US & 12% go to PRC.. BoT might be better off focus'g on these 2 currencies iso stabilising NEER & REER. Thai banks had $31b & Thai corps had $123b in #foreigndebt.. equiv to 64% of 🇹ðŸ‡gross intl reserve. Tt is a threat to #Thailand's LT #stability"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2872367/bot-ought-to-revise-exchange-rate-policy
The #economy favors #rich #speculators and screws over the #working class
End #Federal #taxation on #Labor #LaborDay
#Tax #profits
Tax #speculators
Tax #inheritance
Change the #TaxCode
#climatechange + #speculators -- Global #coffee prices have soared to record highs as adverse #weather conditions disrupt #crops, driving up costs for consumers and pushing roasters to add lower-cost #beans to their blends, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/f02f2888-2349-47be-b484-22c8bcf38b35?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
FX: CFTC data show that #HedgeFunds and #speculators have flipped their long-standing short #yen position and are now net #long of the currency for the first time since March, 2021, chart @ReutersJamie @ReutersBiz
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/funds-go-long-yen-first-time-four-year-mcgeever-2024-08-19/
Further, the critique of #globalisation fails if it is merely a critique of speculative capital and that is, a critique for productive accumulation. It was the crisis of productive accumulation that sustained the divorce of monetary accumulation from productive accumulation (Bonefeld and Holloway, 1995). The critique of #speculation has to be a critique of the #capitalist form of social reproduction. Without such a critique of capital, the critique of speculation is reactionary. It summons the idea of #finance and #banks and #speculators as merchants of #greed. In the past, such views underpinned modern anti-semitism and its idea of a community of blood and soil (Bonefeld, 1997). The fact that #Nazism espoused ‘industry’ and rejected what it saw as vampire like finance, should be sufficient to highlight the rotten character of such a critique of globalisation.
#speculators are shorting 5.6mio futures contracts tied to UST, representing ca. $715bn of bonds. At the same time, repos, where speculators borrow daily from large banks using UST as #collateral, have surged, ca. $1.4trn of o/n repo transactions are taking place each day, chart @WSJEcon https://tinyurl.com/y4x77vkf
What is an #Embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change : Nature
#CarbonCredit #Speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’ : Guardian
Last chance to save the #Amazon : UNEP
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
" #Argentina has oscillated between running up foreign debt, and then succumbing to IMF-enforced austerity programs to pay off or write off debt. None of this has rescued its #economy, but it has enriched #speculators."
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-08-16-argentina-vultures-come-home-to-roost/
When fire struck the Maui shore
Risking all with life and more
Looters and speculators came
Desiring profit to gain
A chance to seize control
For profit, not a soul
In the aftermath of the wildfire's flow
#maui #fire #looters #speculators #poetry
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/looters-land-speculators-move-deadly-hawaii-fires-rcna99812
FX: #speculators hold their most valuable bullish bet on #sterling since 2014. Yet after data on Wed. showed #inflation slowed to 7.9% in June, below forecasts for a reading of 8.2% and down from May's 8.7% rate, more traders may now be inclined to book profits, chart @AmandaCooper & @DharaRanasinghe https://tinyurl.com/38wfvwt7
#GBP FX #speculators have boosted bullish wagers on the #pound to the highest level for nine years despite recent signs that sterling’s strong rally this year is flagging, chart @FT bit.ly/3pEYadF
