偶尔，投机的目标物也会是基础技术 — — 运河、铁路、电气化、无线电、汽车、微电子、计算、互联网 — — 金融投机客为此动员的资本规模远远超过了“理性”投资者所能提供的量级。
Occasionally, the object of speculation has been one of those fundamental technologies – canals, railroads, electrification, radio, automobiles, microelectronics, computing, the Internet – for which financial speculators have mobilized capital on a scale far beyond what “rational” investors would provide.