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This is a concept that's usually associated with the Great Depression (out of curiousity, I created a Google histogram of the usage and dates associated with "overspeculation" - note the spike in 1929).
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Generally, "overspeculation" represents an economic condition where an inordinate amount of investment capital is diverted to non-traditional vehicles.
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Sure, there's going to be overspeculation in a free market system occasionally, and some kinds of market contractions, but they don't have to be catastrophic.
Lynn Parramore: Conversation with Jeff Madrick, Author of Age of Greed (Part Two) Lynn Parramore 2011
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The change creates new opportunities and sudden wealth, leading to greed and overspeculation.
Lessons of the Great Depression, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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With a strong dollar, I see no incentive to go abroad with my money, particularly China where monetary authorities are reigning in inflation and overspeculation in real estate.
Outperforming Asset Classes And Stocks For 2011 Martin T. Sosnoff 2010
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With a strong dollar, I see no incentive to go abroad with my money, particularly China where monetary authorities are reigning in inflation and overspeculation in real estate.
Outperforming Asset Classes And Stocks For 2011 Martin T. Sosnoff 2010
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With a strong dollar, I see no incentive to go abroad with my money, particularly China where monetary authorities are reigning in inflation and overspeculation in real estate.
Outperforming Asset Classes And Stocks For 2011 Martin T. Sosnoff 2010
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The insufficient regulation of financial activities has implications not only for illegitimate practices, but also for a tendency toward overspeculation that, as Adam Smith argued, tends to grip many human beings in their breathless search for profits.
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis Sen, Amartya 2009
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However, there is a danger of overspeculation in India, where the price of land has gotten extremely high.
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Other venture capitalists warn of overspeculation in green technology and say investors are paying too much for stakes in unproven companies that will take years to turn out a product -- and even then, may be dependent on government subsidies or specific regulations to thrive.
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