{"id":191180,"date":"2009-09-15T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/15\/the-devils-dictionary-financial-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-09-15T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:03:00","slug":"the-devils-dictionary-financial-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/15\/the-devils-dictionary-financial-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary &#8212; Financial Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125297744960710625.html\">very funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s subscription only content for the WSJ, but if you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/search?aq=f&amp;pz=1&amp;ned=us&amp;hl=en&amp;q=The+Devil%27s+Dictionary+--+Financial+Edition+\">this Google News link<\/a>, you can read it there, because when you click through &#8220;the Google&#8221;, you bypass registration.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BANK FAILURE, n.<\/span> 1. A process by which towns across America are denuded of their feckless local bankers, paving a way into the market for feckless private-equity investors. 2. An increasingly common Twitter tag that spikes on Friday afternoons. See #bankfail, #wheresmymoney, #runitsthefdic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very funny. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s subscription only content for the WSJ, but if you go to this Google News link, you can read it there, because when you click through &#8220;the Google&#8221;, you bypass registration. Here is a snippet: BANK FAILURE, n. 1. A process by which towns across America are denuded of their feckless &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1100,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-funny","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}