What does overspeculate mean?
Overspeculate means (finance) To spend too much money in speculation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(finance) To spend too much money in speculation..
[…] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]
“It’s overdeveloped, overspeculated and overleveraged.”
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Overspeculate means (finance) To spend too much money in speculation..
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[…] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]
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