... vernacular means speculators, since the common vernacular on this is infected by the habits of newspaper reporters, who write as if financial speculation was actual investment because its speculators who are most willing to pay for newspapers and magazines to find out what information the other speculators already have as they play their games of "guess first".


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.