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Both market slides began with worries about overspeculation and increases in bank interest rates.

From Time Magazine Archive

These indicated prosperity, not overspeculation, thought the President.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inflation has contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork.

From Time Magazine Archive

A reasonable person, he maintains, would "put those pieces together, make some guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about and then modestly decline overspeculation about the pieces that don't fit."

From Time Magazine Archive

Had overspeculation in securities been the only force operating, we should have seen recovery many months ago, as these particular dislocations have generally readjusted themselves.

From State of the Union Address by Hoover, Herbert