…the aim of selling soon at a profit is socially destructive. Practiononers use the word “trading” or the phrase “active trading” to avoid the negative connotations of “speculation.” Part of…

…I can safely and for sure tell you that food labeling is approved by the USDA and or the FDA. A small change in a label or packaging such as…

…certain speculative activities. Here is the same data, separated into two graphs around the year 2000. Also shown are the 55 week moving average, and an envelope one standard deviation…

…proof as usual) that assets are liquid when trading volume is high. Thus my question becomes whether high trading volume is a good or a bad thing. A sudden decline…

…high-frequency trading. [This tax] has the potential to curb risky speculative trading that contributes little real economic value.  The Capital Institute’s John Fullerton has stated that a financial speculation tax…

…— by huge and hugely profitable bets in the oil market. The influential Kobeissi Letter documents the latest example. Common Dreams also has an article covering potential Insider Trading. ‘Epic…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

…important surprise is that residential construction has held up in spite of high mortgage interest rates. The question for this post is whether that happened because of another speculative bubble…

…a 14 year high in the last hour of trading on Thursday, just before trading of the February gas contract expired….after falling 6.2% to $3.999 per mmBTU last week as key…

…In 1897, Germany’s Reichstag banned trading in wheat futures after a disastrous harvest sent prices soaring. And in the 1950s, US politicians outlawed the trading of onion futures – a…