speculating

Nobody except Emily Eavis knows who'll be headlining next year - but rumours are rumours, and everybody enjoys speculating about the line-up.

The New Deal-era Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, repealed in 1999 under President Bill Clinton, had stopped banks and other corporate entities from speculating in the types of financing schemes that in 2008 wrecked the material security of millions of Americans, disproportionately people of color.

Some awards season forecasters are already speculating that Deadwyler’s performance could make her a serious Oscar contender — potential payback just two years after her “Till” snub, as well as the exclusion of other acclaimed Black women from the 2023 nominations, sparked the film academy’s latest controversy over race.

Lines at downtown precincts were busy and people who have been inundated with out-of-town organizers and ads for months could be heard speculating about the results on their cellphones, anxious to see a conclusion to the contest.

“There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening,” he said, “so it’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it and speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love.”