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After Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme was revealed, many new (smaller-scale) Ponzi schemers are being exposed. Ponzimonium refers to the tre[阅读全文:]
摘要: An arrangement on the floor of the NYSE whereby clerks cover the booth of a floor broker and accept orders, phone calls, and associated tasks.
The clerks in charge of maintaining the booths are[阅读全文:]
摘要: A slang term used when politicians or governments "unofficially" undertake projects that benefit a group of citizens in return for that group's support or campaign donations. This spending mostly b[阅读全文:]
摘要: A measure of how frequently assets within a fund are bought and sold by the managers. Portfolio turnover is calculated by taking either the total amount of new securities purchased or the amount of se[阅读全文:]
摘要: The nickname given to "Special Master for Compensation" Kenneth Feinberg. The term "pay czar" was applied to Feinberg following his appointment by the U.S. Treasury Department to monitor compensat[阅读全文:]
摘要: A phrase commonly used in personal finance and retirement planning literature that means to automatically route your specified savings contribution from each paycheck at the time it is received.
摘要: Taking a vacation from one's main job and using that vacation time to make extra pay at a second job. A paycation can help make ends meet in tough economic times. The term gained popularity during th[阅读全文:]
摘要: A slang term describing the police action of parading an arrested suspect in handcuffs before the media.
Short for "perpetrator walk," this is a practice with which many people disagree, consi[阅读全文:]