Bailout Bingo
20 November 2008 at 9:37 am Peter G. Klein 10 comments
| Peter Klein |
You’re probably familiar with Buzzword Bingo. Let’s create a version to accompany news reports, editorials, and political speeches on the financial-market and other bailouts. Keep a card with you as you read the newspaper, watch or listen to broadcast news, visit with Barney Frank, or follow the conversation at your next hoity-toity dinner party. Check off each term as you hear or read it and shout “Bingo!” when you have five in a row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Here’s a sample card. Please add suggestions for additional words and phrases in the comments.
| Protecting jobs | Ripple effect | Necessary intervention | Can’t afford to do nothing |
Life blood of the economy |
| Corporate greed | Market failure | Temporary relief | Decisive action | Frozen markets |
| Nonpartisan solution | Maintain competitiveness | F R E E S P A C E |
Sit idly by | Domino effect |
| No fault of their own | Stability | Public investment | Congressional authority | Too big to fail |
| Head in the sand | Conservatorship | Critical industry | Creative solutions | Public-private partnership |
Entry filed under: - Klein -, Bailout / Financial Crisis, Public Policy / Political Economy.
Organizations and Markets 
1. The Melting Pot Project | 20 November 2008 at 10:12 am
Bailout Bingo…
Remember Buzzword Bingo? Well, here’s a new version made especially for the bailout:……
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jacobchristensen | 20 November 2008 at 1:23 pm
Strategic something-something?
But then again, strategic is one of those magical words used in all kinds of contexts.
3.
Greg | 20 November 2008 at 2:33 pm
Regulatory oversight
4.
Greg | 20 November 2008 at 2:34 pm
Also: moral hazard, systemic risk
5.
Rafe | 20 November 2008 at 5:19 pm
extreme capitalism, market fundamentalism, maintain effective demand, show leadership, the process of healing, visionary, job creation, wooden headed laissez faire, nothing to fear but fear itself
6.
Ryan | 20 November 2008 at 6:18 pm
Liquidity, injection
7.
Stanway | 20 November 2008 at 9:53 pm
Executive salaries, bonuses, remuneration.
Critical industries, Part of America, changing nature of the crisis, rethinking TARP.
Against – almost as buzzword laden, although correct:
down the rat hole, corporate state, socialist quagmire, congressional pork, redistributionist.
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Art Carden | 21 November 2008 at 4:15 pm
Here’s my entry:
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=552
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Leslie Jones | 21 November 2008 at 10:26 pm
Using this for the “drinking game” would be much more fun!
10.
Ivan | 2 December 2008 at 7:04 pm
bankruptcy is not an option