They support a common European economic and financial policy, and to prevent speculative bubbles.

But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions.

Remember in a boom no one wants to hear the warnings, that's what makes speculative bubbles so dangerous.

Enacting market crisis: The social construction of a speculative bubble.

I think it is merely a very extensive speculative bubble.

Another view holds that the poker boom was a classic speculative bubble.

There, a sharp rise in interest rates popped the market's speculative bubble.

Some traditional shipping industry leaders fear a speculative bubble is developing.

A: All you can say is that we tend to build up these enormous speculative bubbles.

Q. Still, many have referred to what happened last year as a mania, or a speculative bubble.