woty

[Marc Velasco]

I'll throw this one out there: credit default swap.

It's suitably arcane, no one really knows what it is, yet most know that
it's bad news.  And in the end, it's at the heart of the crisis which has
led us to the trillion dollar question.




On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:02 PM, John McChesney-Young <panis at pacbell.net>wrote:

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> On Sep 30, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Marc Velasco had asked:
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>  >> are there any WOTY candidates that relate to the current
>  >> difficulties in the
>  >> credit markets, the market in general?
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> And Erik Hoover wrote:
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> > How about 'epic fail'?
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> Along the same lines and from the same Internet subculture, "failboat";
> cf.:
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> http://lolfed.com/2008/09/29/all-aboard-the-failboat-wachovia-edition/
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> John
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