anti-speculative

adjective

an·​ti-spec·​u·​la·​tive

ˌan-tē-ˈspe-kyə-lə-tiv,

-ˌlā-,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or less commonly antispeculative

: serving or intended to discourage or restrict financial speculation : antispeculation

The government's wartime policies also repressed private finance in multiple and reinforcing ways, including … an intensification of the anti-speculative financial regulation of the New Deal.

—Robert Kuttner

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above