And, I confess, in the pursuit of "easy money" to build, we are not so much. AG1 will undoubtedly add to your understanding. Meanwhile, the process of investing involves investing in an enterprise which produces and sells products, works, and provides services, is engaged in economic activities aimed at the development and creation. So what we are building and improving all the time? Investment or speculation? Re-reading the definition of term investments in an economic dictionary, edited by Azriliyana an, namely: investment – a combination of cost, realized in the form of long-term capital investments in industry, agriculture, transport and other branches of the economy, not help think about it – maybe what we call investment, are not? Maybe we mistook the investment process with the process of speculation as to the purchase different values in order to obtain speculative profits from the difference between the purchase and sale price? How to distinguish one from another? I think that our actions and attitudes determine the true nature of the processes. Translated from Latin investiere – this habit (dress in something, to cover, envelop yourself). What exactly can not be said about the speculation: translated from the same Latin speculation – Tracking, vysmatrivanie. So what we have done all these years: clothed enterprise, transforming and promoting their growth, or hunted down and look out for growth markets? Inclined to think that, nevertheless, the second – and this is called speculation. Ask what's wrong with that? If you do not consider that speculation stimulates inflation markets, and taking into account only the fact of making a profit, then in principle nothing wrong we are not watching, especially because all those involved. .