The Austerity Dictionary

This started out as a little crowdsourced joke on Twitter, with the hashtag #austeridictionary (note the spelling). A link to the ongoing discussion/madness is https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23austeridictionary&src=hash. I used SearchHash to collate the hashtagged tweets, into a CSV folder, which I  then cleaned up in Excel. Its a bit of fun, but also like all good satire has a bite. The words we use are important. Using phrases in a Humpty Dumpty like manner, where going forward means going backward, where recovery means stagnation etc is an abuse of both language and the intelligence of people. A  great feature of Ireland is that we dont take ourselves too seriously. The problem is that sometimes neither does anybody else! In any case, cleaned of the most clearly libelous and obscence, here is The Austerity Dictionary

 

4: amount by which BBC salaries are multiplied to get equivalent levels at RTE

52:  Typical age at which senior civil servants are entitled to retire on fat pensions

AAA: austerity anonymous ahoy

Acting the Cowen: To deny that a bailout happens when it’s inevitable, and more than likely, it happens the next day.

Adjustment: Deflation

Adjustment= gov process of deciding who gets to live and die, while gov feathers its own nest.

AIB: Anglo Irish Bank Light

AIB: Another Irish Bailout

AldiLidl (n) : A grocery depository used in place of a Superquinn in lean times.

Alivestock= people for export to foreign lands (21st century replacement for slavery).

an Anglo: an obscene but unquantifiable amount : that will cost you an Anglo to repair is say.

Anglophiles: Former c-suite executives of Anglo Irish Bank?

Another Mass, Is there anything to be said for saying  : Economic recovery policy as outlined by Dana.

Arseterity (noun) a pain in the arse brought on by austerity.

ATM  :symbolic, totemic, device used as rallying call to pacify & direct population cf.  The ATM’s will stop working

ATM : a three letter word, preceded by the phrase ‘no money in the’ used to frighten the bejaysus out of Joe Soaps

Austere a Tea: Bitter, acidic and putrid drink consumed by the Irish for generations to come

Austerity [n] The taking of money from passive citizens and giving it to wealthy gamblers.

Austerity Dictionary: A Lexicon describing the semantic disparity between a government’s + society’s understanding of the same economic lexis.

Austerity: Cargo cult popular with European political elites

Austerity: Cutting back on education resulting in mispelt #hashtags

Austerity: German invention to isolate mistakes, so Merkel won’t have to admit debt trail leads to her banks

Austerity=Pushing the losses of a failed financial system on citizens in the HOPE it’ll lend to them & their state again.

Australia: destination of unemployed since 1788 to the present

Backing Childrens rights with one hand whilst stealing the Childrens money with the other hand

Bailout: Monies given to allegedly help a nation, which really only end back in the Donor countries’ banking system.

Bailout! : Exclamation made by those participating in mass youth emigration

Balanced Budget Multiplier: Random negative numbers.

Balanced Budget Multiplier: See Deflation

Balanced Budget: When there’s no economy left, income = expenditure ( = 0 )

Bank A failed device that continues to extract money after failing

Bank-Guarantee: A guarantee that every bank in the state is fubard

Bank; a device to extract money.

Bank: a virus capable of destroying all in its path. No known cure.

Banker: carrier of the Bank virus

Banker: person who gives you an umbrella when it is sunny,  and when its rainy beats you over the head with it.

Bayleoush: “Bailout”, just said in the dialect of english found commonly in Dublin 4.

Begrudgery (n): The most popular sport in Ireland. A bored game. Played everywhere. Team sport. All ages.

Belt Tightening: dual meaning, 1.citizen coping with

Belt Tightening: dual meaning, 1.citizen coping with , 2. politician eating a large subsidised meal

Belt Tightening: Where everyone wants to tighten their belt around Bertie Aherns’ neck.

Bernank: A unit of fiat money that starts with a value of 1 and ends with a value of zero in under 10 seconds

Bertie Bowling: to plan to create grandiose structure in false honour of self

Bertied : to have people come up and give you bags of money and houses, for no favors asked. Believed a mythical state

best person for the job: phrase used to describe a politician’s previously unemployable relative

BIG PHIL= i.e. doing a big phil, where aristocratic elites make sure no poor people live within 40 mile of their palaces.

Blight Club : see eurozone

Bond : An unbreakable alliance between a bank and the unknown

Bond Yield: Key indicator of economic health irrespective of ECB picking up tab for investors in event if default

Bondholder : synonym for fireproof.

Boucherfied : a medical process where testicles of a  jockey are transplanted to a bank CEO neck prior to a dail meeting

Brain Drain: Vacuum created by emigrating intelligent types, some of whom just like holidays. See quote ‘Mary Coughlan’

brown envelope: a valid no questions asked method of “payment”  to politician created by charlie haughey

Brownian motion: the movement of the eyebrows of an powerful tv presenter when presented w a Td talking shite

Budget : German payday!

Budget: The financing of an economy with the agreement of the German government.

Budgetary correction: Where you get to correct your budget so the government can maintain theirs.

Budgetary Stance ; being stood against a wall while an “Anglo” of money is demanded from you

Buiter: Grexit probability thrower.

Burden Sharing  well-catered meetings where eu leaders divide up the work of writing nonsense to deceive their voters

CAB: Body set up to recover assets from criminals not clever enough not to rob a country’s future

Capitalism: When it fails see Socialism

Capital Flight : what young dubliners are doing, mostly to Australia

Cardiff: to send away someone who’s turn it is to go regardless of fitness or desire to go “to cardiff someone”

Carbon Tax: A tax on carbon emissions, whereby the public are taxed per breath of exhalation of carbon dioxide.

Career Counsellor  – an optional role in schools , rarely needed more

CBI where our Government sends our €3.1BN of promises to go up in smoke

CBO: Religious Place

CDS: 1) Unregulated insurance products used to distort perceptions of risk 2) also see Ponzi scheme

Celebrity Economist: Anybody who has the audacity to suggest anything other than “concensus”. (see consensus below)

Central Bank of Ireland:  subsidiaryof Deutsche Bundesbank

Child Misfortune:  The new name for Child Benefit, as it probably won’t

Clusterfeck (n): A policy decision that causes havoc in every department. Can be direct or indirect. Always catastrophic.

Colemanificate ; to berate academics regardless of the issue at hand

Colemanising ; to use an economics column to opine that the economy would be better if we were more religious

Coleman,Doing a : using crisis as an excuse to blame the public sector for not giving him a job

Concensus: We’re doing it, so you’d just better get fucking used to it.

Confidence (2) that which if you are talking about you have not got viz Cabinet Ministers, football managers

Confidence Fairy: Fairy tale to promote trickle down economics

Confidence: see Irish for ‘philosopher’s stone’

Consequences: repercussion of law breaking or over indebtedness. Not applicable to politicians or CEOs

Cowenisation : to create a rolling omnishambles and the to retire and go to California to share your experiences…

Credit Crunch:The saw like motion, of the canine teeth of a banker, on a sandwich filled with imported prawns.

Crocodile tears. The faux outrage of union leaders at private sector non unionised job losses.

Croke Park Agreement : a win win result for Govt and Public Sector

Croke Park Agreement: A fictional story about productivity

Croke Park Agreement: An agreement where Bertie Ahern’s birthdays are held.

Croke Park: source of energy for ongoing recession.

Dail Eireann : lowest house of Bundestag with no power to do anything but listen passively

Debt Ceiling: See Blackmail

Debt Forgiveness: A confession box for bankers and politicians with a one way lock on outside. Not available in Ireland

December Budget (n): A very high, impenetrable wall that separates Irish people from a Christmas to look forward to.

Default ; what it is of the people who partied but not of the people who gave them the money.

Defaulter  a word which cannot be seen on the forehead of a modern Irishman due to his deeply tugged forelock

Democracy: [Error: File not found]

Dempsey , to know nothing, or something that definitely won’t happen

Devaluation  process by which currency finds real value. Alternative is to devalue the people .. see  Frankfurts Way

Diaspora : a term for a vast pool of potential suckers who can be tapped for money in return for SFA

dillusion: budget 2012 signals start of recovery

Disposable income (n): The imagined contents of an empty wallet. Aspirational.

domestic consumption : Ireland as the auld sow eating her farrow

Dropbox:The inside left pocket of a suit jacket, worn by an elected member

DSGE: sunk capital

Duberliner=official EU title for (former irish) citizens now living in the extended state of germany known as BERLIN.

ECB (v) to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s in a belief that the 2010s are really the 1920s

Economic Sovereignty: having the ability to chose who’s turn it is to rip off your country

Economic Sovereignty: having the ability to chose who’s turn it is to rip off your country

Economist: Artists masquerading as Scientists and earning income from public performance

Economist: Examiner of (backward looking) data, prescribing for future based on hunch. Or need to sell book

Economist: hurler on ditch. Either found in Ivory Tower, or maximising DOOM! in private sector to sell book.

EconoMist…where the department of finance is lost

Economists: Individuals who can explain what happened, argue about what is happening & haven’t a notion what will happen

EFSF …European Fraudsters Steal Freedom ……..

Election promise [v] A pledge of action given before a plebiscite which has no validity afterwards.

Emigrant: a one unit reduction in the live register

Emigration: The Governments policy for tackling unemployment figures.

Endacrinate: to express doubtless confidence in that which obviously does not exist. Ex: June 29, 2012 ‘deal’ for Ireland

Endapendence: (noun) a state of economic sovereignty under the “rule” of Enda Kenny.

Entertainment service: A measure by which a broadcaster fleeces the vulnerable of what little money they have

ESM: Giving stability to the poor wee bankers. At the cost of the citizens.

ESM: Poor man’s Political Union

ESM..(A welfare fund for banks) funded by citizens of Europe

ESM=extra special money (currency only available to elites of Europe).  aka Replacement for Swiss banking systems.

EU=strategy to dis-unite the people of Europe. NB: (More successful than the previous 2 world wars)

Euro Area Convergence: Euro Area Divergence

Euro Crisis : A chronic condition lasting a whole generation

EURO= the destruction of several countries prosperity.

Expansionary Fiscal Contraction : a myth

Expert Group; Government fudge to avoid decision making

Export led recovery: Export most of our people, thereby cutting unemployment and social welfare payments.

Exports: Irish people who have emigrated in order to find jobs.

Family Income Supplement= where Irish gov subsidises businesses but convinces the world its helping the citizens.

Feta  a type of Cheese which, according to Minister Noonan,  is as difficult to buy as  as an Irish politician

FFamnesia – An attempted rebranding of political party who oversaw events leading to loss of independence and sovereignty

Fianna Fail : not Fine Gael

Financial straitjacket: the Irish government’s recommended choice of overgarment for all of its citizens

Fine Gael : not Fianna Fail

Fiscal adjustment (n): Emptying the pockets of the taxpayer by rotating through 180 degrees. Permanently.

Fiscal compact; making austerity look good , see also “lipstick on a pig”

Fiscal Compact: See Race to the bottom.

Fiscal Prudence: Road to Ruin

Fiscal Responsibility: Where you get to be responsible for the irresponsibility of government and banking.

Fiscal Stability (n): A dream sequence in the land of clouds and cuckoos.

Flusterity (n): A meeting of two or more politicians (of any party) trying to make sense of it all.

Frankfurter= a powerful woman attempting to rid the universe of a Ireland, a great little country to do business in.

fraud: a word not applicable to politicians or bankers

full recourse  a family’s long-term fear of extortion and ruin, used by Irish banks as a form of capital

Fundamentals, the fundamentals are strong, a form of delusion that ignores the facts as they really are

Galway Tent: a location in which louche property deals and political sponsorship could be agreed to a country’s detriment

Ghost Estate: Beyond the pale void we have been staring at so long it begins to look back

Gilmorise: to hold strong views on social justice and equality and fail utterly to deliver

Global Race: Government policies must chase the goal of attracting hot criminal money from overseas territories

Going Forward  and  Turning a corner  the actions of a mule, or beast of burden, working at a grindstone

Going forward: Going backward, as fast as possible, towards the Famine.

Going forward: old hiberno-Irish. Extinct phrase replacing future for a short period C late 20th century.  b.1994 d.2008

Going forward: Term used to lull Irish people into the belief that strategic financial and economic planning was in place

Goldmansachs : a form of alchemy where everything can in fact be monetized.

Gordon Brown’s Golden Rule: Policy to achieve a lost decade

Government : This entry was deleted as it seemed to serve no function whatsoever.

Government Liquidity :   the Dail bar

Government: See Troika…

Granularity : Definition not found. NB. The lexicographers do not believe this to be a word.

Greece: Not a poster boy.

Green shoots of recovery: alternative definition: nettles.

Green shoots of recovery. ; favoured diet of unicorns.

Green Shoots; Mythical growth signs seen only by Government ministers

green shoots: early warning of a double/triple dip recession when sighting mentioned by gov press officers.

Green; Incompetent and hypocritical leadership, usually ‘wet behind the ears’, ALSO gullible followership…

Greenjersey: to urge a wholly unjustified belief on someone when all evidence points to the opposite

Growth : Fictional aspiration

Haranguing: What Troika did to Ireland and finance minister! And what

Hard Choices: Deciding which vulnerable people in society become impoverished to maintain your own salary and pension

Healy-Raed:The moment when you realise that a motorway in outer Mongolia surpasses the needs of disability care.

Heating , noun , archaic practice once widespread now only practiced by politicians, bankers and their families

Hit the bottom”, misdiagnosing a local minimum by looking at function values on a bounded interval

Hoganificate. To take something simple and make of it an omnishambles (sic) ; see also Cowenisation and bertify

Home Rule (n) stay at  home no money to go out

Hope. An extinct feeling.

Hospital bed: antiquated version of a trolley.

Household Charge (family home tax) a contribution from hardpressed families to pay Co Managers huge salaries

HSE (n,v, obscene) a curse or invectice  “you’ve made a right HSE of it”, “you have HSE’d that up rightly”

I think Bertie was more anxious to be on every “who’s who’s” social lists

Iceland: Magical place where we all wish we lived.

IMF: a multinational org that validates as infallible EU solutions which EU is working on replacing due to their failure

IMF: it’s mostly fiscal…

Incentive Economics: Policy to cut taxes for the rich.

Indacate : speech by an Irish leader which confuses more than it enlightens.

Instruments: Fiddles that politicians play a country burns

Interest: a tax levied on the poor by the rich

interest: the thing most ordinary people don’t have in economics

Ireland =a country on the periphery of europe that, home to many of the worlds greatest banking crooks &money launderers.

Ireland: 1. poster boy for Europe 2. deeply indebted island in European periphery.

Ireland: State of Purgatory.

Job Bridge: Fabled bridge to Jobland where the beneficent Creators give jobs to jobseekers.

Job Creighton (n): Lucinda Creighton’s “theory” how to create “millions of jobs”.

jobbridge : see slavery

Jobbridge: Exploiting the unemployed to profit wealthy corporations.

Joined up thinking : see Luas….

Joined-up Thinking: Thoughtless exercise in futile repetition of policies arrived at via faked consensus

Junior coalition party: lemmings

Kamikaze Politics : Becoming a Junior Coalition Party

Labour , noun, see Fine Gael

Labour Market Reform: Reduce Worker’s Wages

Labouring : a process whereby a political party becomes more and more like the greens…

Labours Way…. see “Frankfurts Way”

Laffer Curve (n): Where taxation levels are so high that the worker squeals hysterically following sight of their payslip

Large Scale Asset Purchases: Homeopathy

Lenihan (n): A snap decision, made under extreme duress and without rationale; ultimately catastrophic.

Liquidity trap : realizing your out of wine and no cash left

Lisbonising ; voting until you get it right

live register: list of people not on

Lost Decade(s): Self-inflicted pain

Lower Bound: Neat trick to turn the attention away from fiscal policy

Luxuries: Examples include water, clothing and toilet roll

Maastricht Treaty: A treaty to progressively remove powers from governments

Mandate: Where the people voted for sonething different, yet govt delude themselves into thinking they enjoy support.

Marian: radio programme where those immune from cuts discuss impact on others

Means: that which the poor have lived beyond, now marked for transfer to the rich

Media: See “Complicit”

Merkelled the realisation that although you are in some discomfort that you must smile.

Ming: to be neither pro life nor pro choice but pro turf

Monetary adjustment: Where you adjust your monies so that government employees wont have to adjust theirs.

Moral Hazard; the risk you run when electing amoral feckless clientilst politicians….

Morgankellificate: To be lambasted by politicians with suggestions of suicide for correctly predicting the bursting of the property bubble

Mortgage : see millstone

Mortgage : ways and means of enslaving generations of potential employees

Muppets:  collective noun for a group of Ireland’s bailoutnegotiators

NAMA: 2nd word in a song sung by muppets. As in ‘Me NAMA, nah… do do dee do do’

NAMA: Acronym, from Irish “Nil aon moola agam”, trans “I have no more money”,

National Interest : Common term to advance the interests of banks and the markets

Noonanificate : speak soothingly  in a calm grandfatherly fashion about how this hurts you more than it hurts them

Noonanpedia: a place where an explanation is sought but an inaccurate one is given

Not a Silver Bullet: Doesn’t kill werewolves. Absolves politicians of any responsibilty when stupid ideas don’t work.

Not a Silver Bullet: Doesn’t kill werewolves. Absolves politicians of any responsibilty when stupid ideas don’t work.

O’Dea-ious: to sport a moustache after the end of Movember

Panacea: The blindingly obvious solution that cant be enacted due to the wants of special interest groups.

Panacea: The blindingly obvious solution that could never be enacted due to the wants of various special interests.

Partied; activity engage in by everybody in Ireland

Partner: powerful person who mugs you and tells you what to do, by mutual consent.

Partnership: The process whereby the defenceless are extorted to reward the few.

Party (verb): Something all Irish citizens did c. mid 90’s-2008. Believed to cause economic catastrophes.

Pillar Bank : that to which you are tied to be scourged by the Troika

Pillar Banks created to give the illusion Ireland is back in business and lending to business

politician , noun, very highly paid public servant who blames all the ills of the country on lowly paid public servants

Poverty : the future

Pre budget submission: Autumnal sexual practice of Irish political mammalian genus. See 50 sheds of grey

prima facie (archaic): old legal term no longer in use…common usage has been replaced by ‘a file has been sent to …’

Private sector: moan

Prom Notes [n] A  charade whereby 3B of citizens money is destroyed every year at the behest of our “European Friends”

Promissory Note : an ongoing nightmare from which there seems no escape

Proneographic Star (noun): A public figure coached or moulded by Terry Prone.

Property ; root of all evil see also money (sic)

Public Interest Director : oxymoron

Public sector worker: person deemed culpable for all that is wrong in Ireland circa 2007-to date. See also, whipping boy

Public Sector: See scapegoat

Public services: Irish government euphamism for debt amassed by banks, bondholders and unsecured bondholders.

Quango {n} A body set up by Government to do it’s work which can be blamed when said work causes problems.

Quango: a place where Cllr’s go to die

Quantiative Easing. See Homeopathy.

Quantitative Pleasing : sending 3.1b of tax money to a central bank which then destroys it

Quantitive squeezing (v): Method of slow, steady strangulation of hapless taxpayers. Unrelenting. Can be fatal.

Rating Agency: Pied Piper, for rats… sorry, rates, for RATES

Rational Expecations: Perfect Foresight

Recapitalisation; putting monies into black holes of unknown size; an unknowable unknown

Recession – Opportunity for protected economists to whinge about everything while defending own exhorbitant salaries

red cent: a mystical unit of currency created by fine gael

red cent: a mystical unit of currency created by fine gael usage “not another red cent”

Refencing: Centrally pooling taxes originally intended for a specific purpose

Referendum [v] A plebiscite held wherein if it returns an unfavorable result to Government,may be held again.

Referendum: a question posed to the Irish people as many times as required until the correct answer is achieved

Reform: See Cuts

Renewal: The party  that caused austerity rebrands

Renters ; those who didn’t join in the property madness who now have to help pay to clean up the mess

Repayment. Only made by the little people on your behalf after your gambling goes wrong. Also known as a Win Win.

Reshamble: ‘Reform’   underperforming organisation simply by renaming it e.g. FAS/SOLAS

RTE: Reassure The Electorate

Seismic: (adj.) describing outcomes of little or no consequence (e.g., “seismic shift” in EU bank policy c.  Jun 2012).

Senate : political home for the vote impoverished, see also cronies and highly paid

SGP: Race to the bottom

Shankil or Dawson? RT @brianmlucey: Omahoney : 2 urge more bond diversification 4 non Irish & less diversificatn 4 Irish

Sidesizing: Redeploying staff when their quango is abolished as a ‘cost saving measure’

Sindo (v) to promote division and sow discord between elements of society while decrying division and discord.

Siptu: Shut it, Pay the Unions

sittin on d sidelines cribbin moanin is a lost opp in fact i dnt no how ppl like this(Morgan Kelly) dnt committ suicide

Smart Economy: A meaningless phrase thrown out by political sorts when they really don’t know what they are talking about

Social Perknership : where union leaders on 130k  and employers on more urge poorer paid to sacrifice

Social Porknership : where union leaders in exchange for a lack of criticism land jobs on state boards

Social welfare. : monies which could be used for promissory notes but somehow gets diverted

Socialist ; see Bertie

Soft landing: (a) Hard as hell landing.

soft-landing.(n.) sagging wooden floor between bedrooms (b/c of rising damp & lack of funds to heat house)

Solidarity: Where the people must support each other, because those in authority surely wont.

Sound fundamentals : term deployed when the economy is collapsing but you want to convey the opposite meaning

Sovereignty  state of self government attained for 61 yrs by Ireland mainly during late C20, prior to rule by the Troika

Sovereignty  the obligation to extort from your own people at the behest of a foreign power. Apparently.

Sovereignty: something lost

Special Advisor {v} The hiring of a friend at huge expense to taxpayers to tell you what  you were hired to do.

Special Advisors: Those who must be paid more than politicians, to justify the cuts to the poor made by politicians.

Special Case  1. A country which deserves a debt write-off (cf. Greece) 2. A country which deserves a debt (cf. Ireland)

Special Case : translation of Ihre mit einem Lachen paddy

Special Needs Assistant  – see  Career Counsellor

Spin Doctor: a MIB like individual or group who medicates a politician who has displayed tendencies to speak truthfully

Stability & Growth Pact: An accord to destabilize a group of advanced economies onto downward real GDP trajectory

stability treaty= EU secret code for elites. Generally words mean the complete opposite of what they are supposed to mean

Stability:: to Deteriorate Disintegrate Decay Degenerate…

Stammerspeak: language employed by Labour and Fine Gael when reminded of their ‘not one cent more’ pledges.

Standard and Poor: simplified social welfare recipient categories for 2013

Standing up to the banks – a governmental maxim, meaning “not standing up to the banks”

Structural Unemployment: Common term thrown to defend Austerity

Subsistence Level: The quantity of insoluable material within a Fianna Fáil think tank.

Subsistence Level: The quantity of insoluable material within a Fianna Fáil think tank.

Summit: A place European leaders meet to plan a race to the bottom

Systemic: Too complicated for all you simpletons to understand so just leave us to it

Tax Break: the point at which the poor are broke to pay for the banks

Tax: something the poor have to pay

The country stands on the edge of a economic precipice  but that said the Irish government are determined 2 move forward

The Dithering (noun): a daily event held by Irish politicians.

The Gathering (n): An assembly or meeting of people with the express purpose of proving Gabriel Byrne wrong.

The Markets: n, a semi-mythical set of beings that must be placated by sacrificing our futures to build ‘confidence’.

The Unemployed: the people you try to blame to take the focus away from the true causes.

Think Tank: Innovative Idea Generators for Deflation.

Trade deficit : the realization you can’t get a bloody plumber because they are all In a mine in western Australia…

Trickle down economics :the promise held out to the general public that if they are good Europe will piss on their heads

Troika. (v) to attempt to turn a group of people into Germans.

Troikaflage – submissive shrug by elected power re actual power, OR invisibility cloak,e.g.,”The Troika are NOT here”

Turning a corner (v.): Continuing at precisely the same angle around a perfectly circular circuit.

Turning a corner; process of endless downward spiraling

Turning the corner: Doing a u-turn.

Two Speed Recovery: Temporary recovery

UK: a place of absolution from ones debts for crooked bankers busted developers

Unemployment Rate: Irrelevant measure in the context of economic performance. See Bond Yield

Universal Social Charge: Form of income tax cloaked as Social Relief Fund. See also Banking Crisis Relief Fund

Unsecured: adjective which when applied to Irish bonds guarantees repayment

USC : When u need to get a portion of the wage that was previously in the tax free allowance part of it…

USC: Universal Social Charge introduced in Ireland in 2009 to pay for another USC (Unending Securing of Cowboys)

Varadkaboom (n): the sound made by the explosion of a massively destructive bomb which does not actually exist

Varadkarism: The act of denying the existence of further referendums on the basis that referendums are not democratic.

Vinburtonned – a process whereby a vuvuzela gets harangued and browned off

Wallaced: a state of perpetual dishevelment and tonsorial catastrophe

Washington Consesus: Recipe for lost decade(s)

Weidmanned: Loss of output by public policy

Zero: See Balanced Budget Multiplier

Zombie Bank: ghoulish unkillable horror creature that sucks the money from our childrens future