Word of the Day: Queasing
By Barry Ritholtz - June 24th, 2009, 2:00PM
In light of today’s FOMC announcement, enjoy this Britslang:
Queasing n. British slang for “quantitative easing,” the UK’s policy of printing money to stimulate the economy. The US is doing much the same thing, but Fed chair Ben Bernanke calls it “credit easing”—and so far pundits haven’t spun “creasing” into the vernacular.
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Source: Wired
June 24th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
NEW SPORT: extreme dreaming – what precedes the printing of money.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Quislings: businessmen, technology leaders, drug company execs etc… any “free-market” types who have ditched the GOP to support Obama’s sway to the left.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Queasing: When that Queasy feeling you get watching TPTB tie the economy in a knot gets less.
…Hasn’t happened yet for B in T…
June 24th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Dodgentina: an excuse concocted to cover your Father’s Day Weekend trip to Argentina that’s caused a hail storm in your family values constituency.
June 24th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
When will we see easing ceasing?
June 24th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Dennis Knealing: consistently saying the most absurd and stupid things for no imaginable purpose
Larry Kudlowing: consistently saying the most absurd and stupid things for the obvious purpose of one’s self-interest
Barack W. Obamaing: pushing GOP policies when the people who elected you wanted a distinct shift in policy to the LEFT
Becky Quicking: sticking your fl*t chest out as far as it can go so that people will buy stocks
Showering: something Erin Burnett does not do until mid-day
June 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hrmm, sounds too much like another word with f’s in it . . .
June 24th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Issalation: What happens when a ranting a raving right wing Congressman wants attention on TV, attacks the Fed Chairman, and blows it.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Roublini: a drink that messes up your hair, your portfolio, and your English.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Buenos Affairies: a South American city family-values politicians visit after they’ve rejected stimulus… but not to themselves.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Shouldn’t “queef” be a descriptive term of Queasing…. As in “Queasing to date has had as much impact as a queef in a hurricane”.
My .02c
Soylent Green Is People.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Barry did you see the GM CEO wanting a 2nd chance? Should we remind him he’s on what a 3rd or fourth chance?
June 25th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Thyghpocrisy: When you don’t do as you say, but as you do, in maters sexual. Example: Moral-pontificating Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford on then-Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton,”He lied under a different oath, and that’s the oath to his wife,” Mr. Sanford said at the time on CNN. “So it’s got to be taken very, very seriously.” But… when embroiled in his own clandestine affair – including gov’t-paid trips to Argentina – Sanford won’t step down as governor.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am
S-Queasing
vs.
in-Creasing
LOL-ing.