Some were concerned by what they saw as speculative excesses.

"We didn't have the speculative excess in the 80's."

Thanks to his startling gains, he was often associated with the perceived speculative excess of the era.

There have been all sorts of speculative excesses on the options market long before this.

But some analysts say they still see signs of speculative excess in the overall cash being thrown at the mutual fund industry each month.

But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

Analysts said the slow period helped mop up earlier speculative excesses.

But it may not have been his views on the speculative excesses of old that affected share prices.

We need it so that we can put a stop once and for all to highly speculative excesses.

As a result, things have never really gotten out of hand in terms of speculative excesses.