March 17, 2008 3:00
Help Justin Fox Name the Financial Crisis
The Curious Capitalist is looking for ideas, though he has a few of his own.:
"Subprime crisis" was fine at first, but it's now totally inadequate to describe what's going on. "Credit crisis" is way too generic. And "rolling financial crisis of 07-08(-09?)," which I use above, is way too lame.
UPDATE: The latest report from the White House press pool. ("Pool spray" is a term that describes a photo op, where a group of fotogs and a few reporters are brought in to take pictures and--usually--throw a few questions at the President.):
Pool Report #5March 17, 2008
In the shortest pool spray since at least the Garfield administration, the pool was ushered into the Roosevelt Room at the conclusion of the meeting between the president and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Within seconds – like, the number you can count on one hand – the pool was “thanked” and ushered right out, much to the amusement of POTUS. No statements. No questions.
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Reader Comments (48)
What about Atrios's name for it?
Posted by J.J.
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March 17, 2008 3:10 PM
Nobody Could Have Predicted: The Bust of 2008
Posted by Acid J | March 17, 2008 3:12 PM
Atrios's name.
The Panic of 08.
The Bush/McCain Depression.
What happens when the MSM tells us that Bush is a great guy to have a beer with, the USSC steals an election and the U.S. launches an unprovoked military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia on the basis of baldfaced lies and wastes $3 trillion on it, to the tune of nearly 4000 U.S. troop deaths and 30,000+ U.S. troop casualties.
What happens when the MSM lies without compunction about Senator Obama attending a particular church service at the Trinity UCC.
What happens when the MSM gets to swing on Senator McCain's tire swing whilst chowing down on bbq.
Republican economics.
Posted by patroclus | March 17, 2008 3:16 PM
America's Descent Into Irrelevance
The Long Cry for Regulation
So Long, European Vacation
Posted by Acid J | March 17, 2008 3:18 PM
atrios' other name for it is good too.
Jenga. It's suitable for a family paper as well.
William Kristol btw, heard from some dude at Newsmax that this is all blown out of proportion, so we can stop worrying.
Does Kudlow still have a job?
Posted by trifecta | March 17, 2008 3:20 PM
I can't think of any names that are suitable for publication here.
Okay, maybe Bush's Blowout
Posted by four legs good | March 17, 2008 3:23 PM
Taxcutonomics!
Posted by patroclus | March 17, 2008 3:23 PM
– the pool was “thanked” and ushered right out, much to the amusement of POTUS.
Good to know the spoiled fourteen year old who dumb-luck-stumbled his way into the Oval Office isn't letting economic collapse disrupt his lifelong smirk anymore than the carnage in Iraq does.
Posted by Jim, Foolish Literalist | March 17, 2008 3:30 PM
So many choices, so little time left for America:
Ourbusto
NeoConnundrum
The Bustbowl
Shoot, loot, and scoot
The Great Foreclosure
The Worst and the Dumbest
Dumber and Dumberest
Deficits Don't Matter
Paper Chimp
Katrina does Wall Street
Straying off Course
A Fistfull of IOUs
The Kleptocrats
The land that TIME Forgot
Posted by HH | March 17, 2008 3:36 PM
:: Boob Rubin's Really Excellent Annual Report Adventure
:: Hillary Hears A Hormone (sorry, that should be Hears Some Horse Moan)
:: Wall Grief Week
:: Big Bucket O' Sell Signals
:: 2008 - The Year Lower Arabia Bought Upper Andover Prep
:: Pelosi Peace Dividend
:: Murtha's Meltdown
:: Spitzer's Sophomore Semester
:: Chapter 11 Fest
:: FRONTLINE Never Presents SHADES OF CARTER - The Fallout From Failure In An AARP Owned Congress
:: Late Suicide with David Letterman
:: Paris Disneyland
Posted by QUESTION HILLARY
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March 17, 2008 3:36 PM
trickled down upon economics.
or
financial facial
or
THE "THIS IS JUST A SMALL SLOWDOWN" DEPRESSION
or
ahh
h
h
h
h
splat
Posted by cbhenderson | March 17, 2008 3:38 PM
http://newsmax.com/kessler/Obama_hat%20e_America_sermon/2008/03/16/80870.html?s=sp&promo_code=474C-1
Something to cheer you up, libniks.
PS: When oil drops $10 in 2 days, that's a BUY signal.
No extra charge.
Posted by QUESTION HILLARY
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March 17, 2008 3:41 PM
President Bush screwed up everything else, but wasn't quite guaranteed to be the most disastrous president ever. Some have had stupid wars, some have had disastrous economic policies.
Herbert Hoover can kiss Bush's butt now. We have a new champion.
Posted by trifecta | March 17, 2008 3:43 PM
How about "Aren’t you glad that Bush didn’t succeed in privatizing Social Security?"
(h/t SadlyNo)
Posted by James, Los Angeles | March 17, 2008 3:44 PM
Something to cheer you up, libniks.
We were cheered up--clowns are funny.
Posted by J.J.
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March 17, 2008 3:45 PM
QH is going to sell his Bear Stearns shares and donate the proceeds to the McCain campaign. One good investment leads to another.
Posted by HH | March 17, 2008 3:49 PM
Here is a fact for you to ignore, QH: The S&P is closing right now at about 1283. In May of 2000, it was at 1540. Now, explain how that was Jimmy Carter's fault.
Posted by smedley | March 17, 2008 3:56 PM
How 'bout the Dollars to donuts margin call.
Posted by Paul Dirks
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March 17, 2008 3:58 PM
The Waterboarding of Wall Street!
Posted by patroclus | March 17, 2008 4:01 PM
I agree with Trifecta--by next January when the chimp gimps back to the ranch in Tejas (where he can clear brush while eating pretzels on his Segway) he will be the undisputed wanker of the world, as well as the worst presidente ever. LBJ on Vietnam + Hooverville on the econ = W's 1/2 farting/smirking face. What's truly spanktacular is the notion that we're now poised to elect his equally retarded hug partner. Insert Calvin's aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh!
Posted by Oregon JC | March 17, 2008 4:02 PM
The Waterboarding of Wall Street!
Posted by patroclus |
This gets my vote.
Posted by Jim, Foolish Literalist | March 17, 2008 4:11 PM
It already has a name, & has had it for decades: "Reaganomics"
Posted by fedupwithswampland | March 17, 2008 4:23 PM
Way off topic, Oregon JC, but, Bush is not going back to Tejas, at least not for long. He is looking at houses in Dallas. So, he bought the "ranch" in 1999, and will move to Dallas within a year of leaving office. But the mission to present him to the 'murkin people as a rancher? Mission Accomplished. And, oh yeah; the "rancher" is indeed afraid of horses. That rumor was confirmed by Vicente Fox.
Posted by smedley | March 17, 2008 4:23 PM
Oops, I meant not going back to the "ranch." I know, Dallas is still in Tejas.
Posted by smedley | March 17, 2008 4:25 PM
Ah, the few poor demoralized dems in Dallas must be wondering how they can sell their home in this market!? But thanks Smedley for the heads up. I actually love Texas, espec. W. Texas, so I'll now know on future road trips that the presence of Randall Flagg is elsewhere in the state.
Posted by Oregon JC | March 17, 2008 4:36 PM
"Paper"-shredder.
Posted by dman | March 17, 2008 4:42 PM
Bushcession?
Fiscal conservatism?
Posted by Memekiller
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March 17, 2008 5:03 PM
Recession Accomplished.
Posted by TomT | March 17, 2008 5:08 PM
America has been Bushwacked
Posted by JoyousMN2 | March 17, 2008 5:12 PM
The Strongening of the Dollar (as per Bush's policies).
Posted by Cliff | March 17, 2008 5:12 PM
KT here--
I kind of like "Bear market," which was one of the suggestions on Justin's blog.
Posted by Karen Tumulty | March 17, 2008 5:19 PM
Bear market? What does Andrew Sullivan have to do with this? ;)
Posted by trifecta | March 17, 2008 5:24 PM
TomT..."recession accomplished"...that's friggin funny!
i submit one last entry....
Bare Market (cuz we are all gonna lose are shirts)
Posted by cbhenderson | March 17, 2008 5:28 PM
btw....luckily i already know how to hop a train, play harmonica, and play most of woody's hobo songs on guitar...
Posted by cbhenderson | March 17, 2008 5:29 PM
I Wish I Could Afford to Have A Beer With Bush
Posted by Acid J | March 17, 2008 6:05 PM
Bush's Pw3nrship Society
Posted by Florida | March 17, 2008 7:11 PM
The Gilded Age, Part Deux
Posted by Florida | March 17, 2008 7:28 PM
The 16 year Old Me Was Entirely Correct, the Whole Game is Rigged and I Should Have Just Kept Rockin' and Rollin' All Night and Partying Everyday and Not Wasted So Much Time and Money on College Because It Looks Like This Whole Thing is Going Down Anyway Crisis of 2008
OR
Crisis of the 21st Century
Posted by Titus Pullo | March 17, 2008 7:49 PM
America Upside-down
This isn't a credit crisis - it's a lack of equity and income crisis. At all levels, public and private, we've accumulated debt beyond the value of the collateral securing it and the income required to service it.
Posted by Steve in Sacto
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March 17, 2008 8:31 PM
The Strong Dollar Crisis
Posted by Observer | March 18, 2008 12:46 PM
Oops, Cliff already said it more cleverly.
How about, as I suspect it will one day be described in a wikipedia section header, "The Rise of the Euro"
Posted by Observer | March 18, 2008 12:54 PM
Ooh, ooh, one more:
Canadian Money: Not So Funny Now, Is It?
Posted by Observer | March 18, 2008 12:55 PM
The Morning After the Drunken Night at the Old West Saloon.
Posted by Cliff | March 18, 2008 1:38 PM
Great Depression II and World War III would be two nice notches on Bush's belt. There is still time for him to make everything even worse.
Posted by the weather | March 18, 2008 1:40 PM
"Greenspan said that he hoped the fallout would not take away the finance industry's ability to regulate itself." HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Posted by the weather | March 18, 2008 1:56 PM
the weather:
I couldn't have put it better myself.
Posted by Cliff | March 18, 2008 4:09 PM
Whatever name wins, we might want to translate it into Mandarin? To the victor go the spoils.
Posted by Kawika
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March 18, 2008 10:55 PM
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