Speculative Quotes

Ideally ... we think that a further step here would be to phase out capital gains if investor are holding for a longer period. For instance, if you were to hold stocks, let`s say, for five years, I would like to see the rate lower than 20 percent, and maybe if you hold 10 years, there might be no capital gains rate at all. That will return the public markets to being about buying and holding and funding businesses, which was their purpose, not throwing paper around in a speculative manner.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Land is so speculative right now. The price points facing developers (in the West Valley) are higher than in other markets that have proven themselves.

This is the first time (in a while) that people aren`t sure if they will do anything. The question is has the economy (really) turned. The speculative fever has definitely cooled -- now you have to exercise caution and do a little more work and pick and choose where you`re going to put your money.

They overemphasized speculative economic harm to development while totally disregarding the real economic benefits of habitat protection.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature`s laws.

It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

(Meanwhile, the financial froth of speculative bubbles--and their dangers--are another enduring legacy of the Greenspan era.) Irrational exuberance really is still with us, ... risk that in 2010 or even 2015, the stock market will be lower still in real, inflation-corrected terms, than it was in 2005.

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction