WORD of the Day:   Vaporized

MFnGlobal customer funds were vaporized.

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Buzzwords and Org Jargon

(needs a little editing)

Ever sit in a meeting and hear a word and say hmm that says it, who started that expression? New buzzwords are created faster than ever as pop culture and media rule. Katie Couric (ex-Today Show) for example was the buzzword and hairdo queen.

But do you get annoyed* by someone who uses hackneyed buzzwords or popular ones repetitively? Like almost when every sentence uttered gets the refrain “exactly”or “zactly”. And by now we all hate “Hell-low” and “on the same page”. Believe it or not ,”throw out the baby with the bathwater” is back more than ever”. Well here is a working compendium of some commonly used jargon. Don’t stop here. We hope you will create your own buzzwords and start a trend, but these new words have a very short half-life before annoyance sets in. Send your buzzwords to www.raygent.com for updating this list.

Expression of the year is WDF.

Bizbabble

vaporized

drill down(on it), player

talk their book, blahflation

relo, clawback

giddyup, disruptive (technology)

golden coffin, “drill, drill, drill” (Kudlow)

solutions*  ,”land banks” (Cramer)

on the horn* , holy cow!

crowded trade, liquidity backstop

monetize, liar loans

telepresence, bailout

upside down, cash runway

spot on, bench strength

derivatives, meltdown

back channel, backstory, tone deaf

skin in the game, mad as hell

toxic assets, franken-derivatives

zombie banks, legacy assets

lockdown, full body contact

lumpy, green-lit

headline risk , optics

due negligence, cap and trade

fresh eyes, lift the hood up

talk your book, shoe to drop

new normal, crowded trade

double-dip, price discovery

stalled, Goldilocks economy

fat tail, good cop/bad cop

algo trades, robo-trades

give color, bolt on

crowded trade, wow data

strategic alternative

General Use Buzzwords

wicked, bimbotante, jagoff  (PIT)

big table ,celebutante, hat in hand

turnkey#, leading edge#, a leader#

bitchin’ , sketchy . uh oh, harsh

grim, end of story, namaste

honey-do’s* ,epiphany, gateway drug

Joe SixPack,  genetic obedience, hyphenate

Gut check. head fake, dystopian

Lollygaggin’ ,Fourth Estate

Old school ,brainworm, backstory

Drunk dialed, foodie, slide path

Blowout,  ego-parked

Rope a dope , didn’t get the memo

Back channel, work around

Keep it real, for sure

Stay-up

Cross collateralized, white space

Random Expressions and Idioms

• Feeling their oats*
• It’s a slam dunk
• Way of the buffalo
• This time it’s different
• How do we turn lemons into lemonade?
• Is the juice worth the squeeze?
• Elephant in the room
• It is what it is
• Trippin’ very hard
• Always be closing (Glen Garry Glen Ross)
• Smell the coffee
• Whaddya got for me?
• I coulda been a contendeh
• Life in the slow (fast) lane
• Life is good
• Step up to the plate
• Walk the walk, talk the talk*
• Be careful what you wish for.
• Where the rubber meets the road
• Hotel California deal-can get in but can’t get out
• Size doesn’t matter
• Late to the party
• Been there, done that*
• We’re running out of road (need more leeway).
• I am out of bandwidth. We need more bandwidth.
• Ping me.
• Where is the upside?
• Lots of FUD.
• Be here now.
• Thank you very much.
• From the get-go.
• Don’t go there*
• Shot across the bow.
• …on the planet….
• Life is good
• It is not you, it is me.
• Recipe for making money.
• You must chill.
• I’d like to say…
• Cut to the chase.
• Takes the air out of the balloon.
• When the balloon drops
• Use it or lose it
• Paint by numbers
• 800 lb. Gorilla*
• Do what ya gotta do
• The horse is outta the stable
• …he(she) has a lotta issues*
• roll their eyes
• ..baby out with the bathwater…(it is back!)*
• ..way overdone by the media..
• asleep at the switch*
• ..the end is near..
• There is no there there….Gertrude Stein
• If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
• I gotta have more cowbell (SNL)
• ..taking on water..
• ..put lipstick on a pig..
• ..greasy pole of success..TSEliot
• ..then the wheels came off…
• ..he deserves the toast with stale beer with the cig butts swimming on top..
• what da f*ck…!
• opaque or transparent market/company
• catch a falling knife
• someone hits the windshield(in a momentum market)
• we don’t know what we don’t know
• I don’t wanno know nothing about anything
• Nobody knows anythingIt aint what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just aint so.”–Mark Twainmore… more ….more

Last one at the table

It’s like anything

Deep end of the pool

Puts his pants on one leg at a time

Depends on the meaning of is is

Hat in hand

Pull your socks up

It’s a wrap

Moral compass

Look behind the curtain

Kick the can down the road(really popular)

Runts of the litter

Risk aversion

It’ll be a dark Christmas

Humanistic event (Kudlow)

NINA-no income no assets

Catch a falling knife

Fatuous blather

Play the other side

Angle is too steep.

Dollars to donuts (way old)

He is uncomfortable in his own skin.

It is as high as an elephant’s eye

Take away the punch bowl

Comparative effectiveness research (healthcare)

”Try to have a good day Dude ”.  Liftline Alta 1999

Sample sentences (with new expressions)

That’s good, but focusing on the core competency is always a key driver for our growth engine.
Also executing these deliverables into a viral marketing approach will leverage the business model to achieve mind-share and reach critical mass. If that works, I think building a new value chain with channel partners and other stakeholders could help you gain traction and hit the†next release†out of the park.† If you need support, I could contribute human capital to the cause but that would require†fully valued†remuneration with an incentivized bonus scale.
That is what I’m talkin’ about.

At the end of the day, we should stop looking in the rear view mirror and reinvent ourselves, but try not to get over the top. Otherwise it’ll be a do-over.