Jargon, People and Company Update – 2008

March 1, 2008

Jargon and other interesting phrases that we may soon find showing up in conversations … Don’t Homeless Family Boxlaugh because it really isn’t funny !

Terms

    Pizza Inflation
    Single-Family Refrigerator Box
    Extended Family Dwellings
    Right-Wing Terrorism
    Florida Condo Swamps
    ARM-LEG-BODY Mortgage
    No-Fault Foreclosures
    Darwin’s Theory of Econolution
    Maximum Wage
    Crash Landing
    The Oil-Standard
    Mandatory Population Thinning
    “I Will Work for Euros…”
    BalmerGate
    Multi-Generational Mortgages
    The November Poll Panic
    The Stupidity Tax
    Commodity Hoarding
    In-Sourcing
    Living Room Vacations
    Write-In-Ballot-Craze
    The Great Alaskan Migration
    Section-8 Bankruptcies
    WikiGovernment
    Carpartments

Companies

    Lunar Development Corp.
    FBMRA - The Federal Banking and Mortgage Rollup Agency
    Macbook Airlines
    Lehman, Citi, Goldman Brothers et al
    Google 4 for 1 Reverse-Split
    The MBIA/Nielson Merger
    The Arson Training Institute
    Yahoo?
    iFlix
    MyFace

People

    Vice-President Winfrey
    Suze-Ramsey Visa Card
    Governor Cramer
    Henrey Blodget Returns as Financial Pundit
    Senator Spears
    Treasury Secretary, Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan
    Regis and Hillary LIVE!
    Friends of Limbaugh W.
    Chairman Greenspan

What did I miss ?

(in no particular order)

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2 Responses to “Jargon, People and Company Update – 2008”

  1. Jargon, People, Companies -2008 « Phil’s Back-Up Website on March 1st, 2008 5:07 pm

    [...] Jargon, People and Company Update – 2008 [...]

  2. Andrew Horowitz on March 3rd, 2008 2:00 pm

    Here are a few more just sent in:
    Jim Cramer Blood Pressure Index
    Hank Paulson Stuttering Index
    CEO replacement velocity indicator (the C-VIX)
    The Idle Construction Machine Index (currently at 100% for some municipalities)
    The traffic enforcement index (a lagging indicator for municipal bond failures)
    The petty theft index

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