{"id":2060,"date":"2008-10-08T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2008-10-08T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T09:54:35","slug":"rewriting-financial-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/2008\/10\/08\/rewriting-financial-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting financial terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these trying financial times, old concepts get new meaning:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CEO<\/strong> &#8211; Chief Embezzlement Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CFO<\/strong> &#8211; Corporate Fraud Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BULL MARKET<\/strong> &#8211; A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEAR MARKET<\/strong> &#8211; A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VALUE INVESTING<\/strong> &#8211; The art of buying low and selling lower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P\/E RATIO<\/strong> &#8211; The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BROKER<\/strong> &#8211; What my broker has made me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STANDARD &#038; POOR<\/strong> &#8211; Your life in a nutshell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOCK ANALYST<\/strong> &#8211; Idiot who just downgraded your stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOCK SPLIT<\/strong> &#8211; When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINANCIAL PLANNER<\/strong> &#8211; A guy whose phone has been disconnected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARKET CORRECTION<\/strong> &#8211; The day after you buy stocks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASH FLOW<\/strong> &#8211; The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YAHOO<\/strong> &#8211; What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINDOWS<\/strong> &#8211; What you jump out of when you&#8217;re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR<\/strong> &#8211; Past year investor who&#8217;s now locked up in a nuthouse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFIT<\/strong> &#8211; An archaic word no longer in use <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Megler Smekk for this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these trying financial times, old concepts get new meaning: CEO &#8211; Chief Embezzlement Officer. CFO &#8211; Corporate Fraud Officer. BULL MARKET &#8211; A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR MARKET &#8211; A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humoristisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iskwew.com\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}