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When a customer gets wiped out by a margin call, he usually becomes angry at the broker who sold him stock on margin, and with good reason in cases in which the issues were overspeculative.

From Time Magazine Archive

His work has been attacked as overspeculative, his scholarship as too eclectic; in illustrating a point, he is as likely to quote from a novel as from a sociological text.

From Time Magazine Archive