Orwellian Financial Newspeak


Global Buzzword Search-And-Delete: Rove at the Keyboard

Although I don't know how many people are really conscious of language manipulation, it is heartening to see it being talked about in places that have a much larger audience than A42. Here's a list of most of the vocabulary or phrases being analyzed in these two articles:

legal tender is now money
credit access is now wealth
monetary inflation is now liquidity
fiscal bankruptcy is now federal stimulus
slow-motion recession is now jobless recovery
deflation is now poor pricing power
foreign dependence is now recycled trade surplus, and lately flexibility
capital hemorrhage is now global trade
rising unemployment is now increased productivity
general market risk is now volatility
stock investment is now channeled savings
REFI-based consumption is now managing home equity
accounting fraud is now financial engineering
derivatives are now off-loaded risk
[US Fed Chyairman Alan Greenspan] is now the knighted banking leader hero
Shock and Awe
High moral ground
De-Baathification
Liberators
Uprising
Armed resistance
Insurgent forces
Organized anti-American factions
Weapons of mass destruction
Independent contractors
Exit strategy