No other nation on earth is such an easy sucker for a speculative boom as the United States.

In the aftermath of a speculative boom, the policy options become terribly limited.

But what if stock prices soared in a speculative boom?

The project failed soon afterward as the speculative boom generated by the diamond discovery collapsed.

The best hope is that oil is in the grip of a speculative boom.

They expected a brief recession, a soft landing from the speculative boom of the Reagan years.

During the 1880s there was a speculative boom in the Australian property market.

Further, he added, nobody had much faith in the value of the Federal tax advantages driving the speculative boom elsewhere.

The crash followed a speculative boom that had taken hold in the late 1920s.

His problems are only too typical of those now afflicting Japanese businesses as the country's speculative boom has come to a halt.