Aside from the usual risk weather brings to crops, there are four other risks: economic slowdown, the U.S. dollar and speculator involvement, policy risk and capacity constraints.
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Before condemning such a move by the Congress, I believe one should understand the essential difference between an investor and a speculator.
In 1811, President Madison secretly dispatched a disgraced Georgia pol and land speculator named George Mathews to secure Florida for the U.S. After a year's boondoggling, Mathews and a force of nine irregulars talked the nine Spanish defenders of the island into ceding it to America, a meaningless swap that neither country recognized.
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John Buckingham, one of the top ten timers and editor of The Prudent Speculator newsletter is still a buyer of Washington Mutual and of homebuilders.
The Capitalist Tool has been celebritizing the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world since 1917 when we profiled speculator Jay Gould and John D.
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One way is to declare the flour merchant a "speculator" and execute him.
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But Mr Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up in things like household debt while zeroing in on what all this means for people like Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, a proudly left-wing Icelandic carpenter and unlikely sometime property speculator.
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And as for the Wall Street Bear, Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famous speculator in the stock and commodities markets, his end is perhaps the most tragic of all.
But someone needs to take the other side of the bargain, and that usually requires a speculator.
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"China's market is still so new it's hard for us to tell who's a collector and who's a speculator, " says artist Zhang Xiaogang.
The overall near-term technical postures for gold and silver continue to favor the bearish camps, and that is also limiting speculator demand for both.
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There is some logic to this, and Keynes himself was a shrewd speculator.
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The idea: These sponsors, other corporations and individuals who like to play speculator will use the market to make calculated bets on rain, snow, heat, cold or wind.
My father was a very successful commodity speculator in the 1970s and he would have loved the markets of recent years if he had lived to see them.
Investors in Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), including the billionaire (at least he once was) currency speculator Joe Lewis, and Citic Securities have been royally burned, providing a cautionary tale to any would-be angels.
There is some logic to this, and in fact Keynes was a shrewd speculator.
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