The tendency to follow the crowd in speculative trades

May 7, 2015 ... Spoilers for S4B of OUAT and OUATIW are below. Why Jafar? There are several reasons, most of which I will explain below. Agree? Disagree? If speculations are wrong they attract no following and disappear. If they are right they can be the beginning of new fields of knowledge. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. The concept of speculation is applied to theories of art, capitalism, and the future-oriented accumulation of profit, rent and interest. Mar 24, 2014 ... Speculative fiction is fiction in which the author speculates upon the results of changing what's real or possible, not how a character would react to a ... Jan 27, 2014 ... The only instance in science where speculation is productive is in forming a hypothesis. Furthermore, forming a hypothesis is only productive ... Jan 26, 2020 ... This column argues that speculation, which was largely independent of the credit expansion to subprime households, contributed significantly to US housing and ... Speculation is the act of conducting a trade or market transaction that has both the potential for a substantial profit and the possibility of a severe loss. Peter Achinstein develops the basic idea that speculating involves introducing assumptions, under certain “theorizing” conditions, without knowing that there ... Aug 27, 2021 ... There's no clearly defined line between speculation and investing. It really boils down to the amount of risk involved in the investment and each investor's ...