By: xandre on Giovedì 03 Marzo 2011 21:24
Ok, to loosen you up:
Euphemism Examples:
- Winning (Spending $500k in a few months on coke and whores, blowing your incredibly generous TV gig, endangering yourself and family, being a source of amusement and ridicule, destroying your family name)
- Charming (throw away)
- Hook Up (have crazy college sex)
- Establish Clear Boundaries (tell someone to eff off).
- Chilean Sea Bass (Patagonian Tooth-Fish)
- Sweetbread (Thymus Glands)
- Downsizing (firing)
- Pre-owned (used)
- Enhanced Interrogation (torture)
- Revenue Enhancement (tax)
- Wardrobe Malfunction (look at my breast with a pasty on it)
- Glow (sweat)
- Ethically-challenged (A Congressman)
- Lobbyist (One who offers bribes, but went to a good college)
- Quantitative Easing (Money Printing)
- Contingent Convertible (A Way to get Around Bank Capital Standards if the sh$t hits the fan).
And now, hoping you are loose, and have removed hot pokers from your general vicinity:
- Providing Liquidity: The evolution of the SOES bandits in the 1990’s into DATEK, ISLD, NSDQ, and finally Big HFT firms who run ahead of your orders. You bid $21.04, six of them bid $21.05 and take stock up to $21.18. This automated sludge is now somehow Providing Liquidity, because it has been repeated often enough. They didn’t provide you liquidity; they screwed you and provided you heartburn. And as we all knew they would they are actually meeting with regulators and claiming that if anyone attempts to stop them, they won’t provide their liquidity anymore. Read the article here: