Speculative bubbles are essentially social epidemics whose contagion is mediated by the structure of the market.

Speculative economic bubbles are an obvious anomaly, in that the market often appears to be driven by buyers operating on irrational exuberance, who take little notice of underlying value.

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Speculative damages are damages that have not yet occurred, but the plaintiff expects them to.

Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry, ( of which weird or macabre poetry is a major subclassification ), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are ' beyond reality ', whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction.

" Speculative fiction " is sometimes abbreviated " spec-fic ", " specfic ", " S-F ", " SF ", or " sf " but these last three abbreviations are ambiguous as they have long been used to refer to science fiction, which lies within this general range of literature, and in several other abbreviations.

* Speculative loading, where Safari loads the documents, scripts, and style information that are required to view a web page ahead of time

The following are examples of peer recognition accorded to some of the stories printed in Elwood's anthologies ( source: the Internet Speculative Fiction Database ):

Speculative theories of quantum gravity that combine general relativity with quantum mechanics have their own associated paradoxes that are generally accepted to be artifacts of the lack of a consistent physical model that unites the two formulations.

The two works are set in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980 and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database ( ISFDB ) catalogs all three as sub-series of the " Solar Cycle ", along with some other writings.

* Mary Wollstonecraft: A ' Speculative and Dissenting Spirit ' by Janet Todd at www. bbc. co. uk

Speculative execution often provides modest performance increases by executing portions of code that may not be needed after a conditional operation completes.

* Geometria speculativa ( Speculative Geometry ), Latin text and English translation with an introduction and a commentary by George Molland, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1989.

* Speculative fiction by writers of color

* Speculative Vision, speculative fiction by youth

# Speculative Works, of which the chief is his " Quæstiones " ( philosophical and theological ), printed partly in an extremely rare edition ( Venice, 1509 ), which contains also his defences against the Paris theologians of 1283-85 which were reprinted by Charles du Plessis d ' Argentré, Collectio judiciorum, I ( Paris, 1724 ), 226-34 ; Commentary on the Book of Sentences ; " De Sacramentis " etc.

Speculative small investments in UK companies were followed by the purchase of the American media company MTM Enterprises, founded by Mary Tyler Moore and responsible for many US hit shows including Hill Street Blues.

*" Bringhurst's Presocratics: Lyric and Ecology " in Poetry and Knowing: Speculative Essays and Interviews ( edited by Tim Lilburn )-1995

With variations, it has also been used for books on the philosophy of physics ( World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time ), geopolitics ( World Enough and Time: Successful Strategies for Resource Management ), a science-fiction collection ( Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction-Dan Simmons ), a short story by Terry Pratchett (# ifdef DEBUG + " world / enough " + " time "), and, of course, a biography ( World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell ).

* Internet Speculative Fiction Database documents all science fiction, fantasy, and horror publications of specific authors and titles by Ballantine-Del Rey Books.

Speculative private housing development began in the 1930s and by the 1960s surrounded the village with expansive suburban areas.

As early as 1846 he made his name by his Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, which brought him to the notice of Lord Lansdowne, who made him an inspector of schools.

* " A Speculative Fiction ", a song by Canadian band Propagandhi that explores a war between Canada and the U. S.

The album's opening track, " A Speculative Fiction ", won the 2006 ECHO songwriting award by online vote.

This story was made into a one-act stage musical by Alan Menken and paired with James Tiptree, Jr's " The Girl Who Was Plugged In " as a stage production titled Weird Romance: Two One Act Musicals of Speculative Fiction.

* Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson ( Crescent Books )

An English translation of the Theologia was published in 1702 by William Jones ( A Complete System or Body of Divinity, both Speculative and Practical, founded on Scripture and Reason, London, 1702 ); and a translation of the Historia Inquisitionis, by Samuel Chandler, with a large introduction concerning the rise and progress of persecution and the real and pretended causes of it prefixed, appeared in 1731.

* A Reverie for Mister Ray: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction by Michael Bishop

Irwin's first book of literary criticism, Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1975.

* 2 ) Speculative demand for money: this is the willingness to hold cash instead of securities as an asset for investment purposes.

Speculative spikes in oil prices due to Hurricane Dennis foreshadowed the far greater price spikes caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in late August and September.

Speculative attacks on the French Franc during the following year led to the so-called Brussels Compromise in August 1993 which established a new fluctuation band of + 15 %.

Speculative realism places ontology at the center of philosophical inquiry, and Ventus and Lady of Mazes both interrogate ontology, inventing new forms of relationship both between subjects and objects, and between objects in the absence of subjects.

* Speculative execution and out-of-order completion ( called " dynamic execution " by Intel ), which required new retire units in the execution core.

Speculative execution is a further enhancement in which the code along the predicted path is not just prefetched but also executed before it is known whether the branch should be taken or not.

Its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard authors, with a review of Town ’ s Speculative Masonry: its liability to pervert the doctrines of revealed religion discovered, its dangerous tendency exhibited in extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison, and further illustrated in its base service to the Illuminati, New York, 1828.

* Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, frequently publishes alternate history stories.

Other than these theological textbooks, and the aforementioned works of the mixture of prose and poetry, Alan of Lille had numerous other works on numerous subjects, primarily including Speculative Theology, Theoretical Moral Theology, Practical Moral Theology, and various collections of poems.

Speculative projections predict that global peak coal production may occur sometime around 2025 at 30 percent above current production, depending on future coal production rates.

Speculative interpretations identify him as a god of nature or fertility.

Speculative trading in derivatives gained a great deal of notoriety in 1995 when Nick Leeson, a trader at Barings Bank, made poor and unauthorized investments in futures contracts.

Speculative drawing ( circa | c.

C. D. Broad distinguished Critical from Speculative philosophy in his " The Subject-matter of Philosophy, and its Relations to the special Sciences ," in Introduction to Scientific Thought, 1923.

The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East.

* Vanadium ( Speculative: there is no established RDA for vanadium.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

Speculative theories such as string theory predict 10 or 26 dimensions ( with M-theory predicting 11 dimensions: 10 spatial and 1 temporal ), but the existence of more than four dimensions would only appear to make a difference at the subatomic level.

Speculative secondary markets developed for many of these pieces.

Speculative grade bonds thus became ubiquitous in the 1980s as a financing mechanism in mergers and acquisitions.

Speculative demand is inversely related to the interest rate.