That could drive away domestic investors while attracting unwanted foreign speculators.

The British people will pay for it and the foreign speculators will profit from it.

In the last five years foreign speculators have bought housing worth £16.5 billion.

At the top end of the market, the Government could levy specific taxes on the foreign speculators.

And the emphasis on big foreign speculators may encourage Malaysia to control too much for too long.

Thailand's own investors and companies began buying dollars, attracting the attention of foreign speculators.

On May 15, 1997, they sold dollars and simultaneously ordered banks not to lend to foreign speculators.

They were soon besieged by foreign speculators wanting to bring colonists into the state.

"For foreign speculators, the bond is seen as the trading vehicle, the big casino."

That is what happened and now everybody is complaining about foreign speculators.