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PIIGS Got You Down? Try These!

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By Barry Ritholtz - February 8th, 2010, 10:27AM

Last week, FT Alphaville noted that PIIGS was becoming an “unkosher” acronym at Barclays Capital.

The oft amusing Jim Bianco suggests that instead of using the phrases PIIGS, we give these acronyms a try:

* DEBT – Dubai EU Brazil Turkey
* SICK – Spain Iceland Columbia Kazakhstan
* DUMP – Dubai Ukraine Mexico Portugal
* PUKE – Portugal UK EU
* STUPID – Spain Turkey UK Portugal Italy Dubai

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9 Responses to “PIIGS Got You Down? Try These!”

  1. Ramstone Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    CANZSAR — $Canadian, Australian, NZ, & South African Rand.

  2. grlampton Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 10:46 am

    How about a ew monetary unit for the United States:

    FUCU — Fiat Unbacked Currecy Unit.

  3. Jimmy the Jiminator Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Here is what you should have added to the list:

    FUCKED – France, UK, Columbia, Kazakhstan, EU and Dubai

    SHIT – Spain, Hungary, Italy

    CRAP = Columbia, Russia, Argentina and Portugal

  4. How the Common Man Sees It Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    I wonder why they call them the BRIC nations. They really should be called the CRIB nations because they are in their capitalism infant stages

  5. perra Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    US = United States
    :(

  6. MikeG Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    BANKRUPT – Burundi, Albania, North Korea, Rwanda, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Togo

  7. philipat Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    I wonder why U=UK, not US. Which started it all. “The American crisis” should be the name of the present meltdown, following from the prior “Asian crisis”.

  8. Random Market Thoughts, February 9, 2010 | Blue-Point-Trading Says:
    February 9th, 2010 at 8:24 am

    [...] us to SPX 1200-1300 eventually, no matter of these PIIGS, STUPID, PUKE, DUMP or SICK countries (see good post here)  . There, you should be prepared to take some really nice Shorts for the Long (speaking 2-4 [...]

  9. Nach den PIGS die STUPIDS. Oder die… Says:
    March 3rd, 2010 at 3:22 am

    [...] Spanien, Türkei, United Kingdom, Portugal, Italien und Dubai. Damit aber noch nicht genug. Auf The Big Picture wurde noch etwas weiter [...]

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