Under Michaelson's direct examination, Blankfein subtly rewrote the history of the financial crisis a phrase he never uttered.
The government and Mr. Blankfein also avoided mentioning the phrase "financial crisis".
Under Michaelson's direct examination, Blankfein subtly rewrote the history of the financial crisis — a phrase he never uttered.
Even though I'm a child of the capitalist 80s (Thatcher was the only PM I knew until I was 22), I've never known the meaning of the phrase "financial security".
As marketers remake campaigns to address the recession, advertising copywriters are liberally peppering prose with financial words and phrases, particularly "stimulus" and "stimulus package".
The phrase "global financial elite" sounds "so out of a James Bond movie," he adds with a laugh, like "a financial cabal, or a vast conspiracy to buy really expensive cars and leather goods".
"Jim Grant" — the financial writer — "had a phrase: 'the incessant degradation of the stigma of debt.' Debt is the story".
Ford said he would solve the city's financial problems, repeating the phrase "gravy train" ad nauseam as a means of trashing wasteful government spending.
Along with several economists, he came up with a phrase, "the financial accelerator," which described how deteriorating market conditions could speed until they became unmanageable.
"So I hook him up with some UBS Warburg people in the region," one tells the others, in perhaps the first use of that vernacular phrase in financial advertising.
