America has a lot of fascinating metaphors for money. If you know something about their money, some of the euphemisms are obvious ("mean greens", "Lincolns", "Jacksons", "Benjamins", "greenbacks" etc.) though the origins of some others are more obscure ("bread", "dough", "scratch", etc.)
nice article. I wouldn't have gone so far back for Stock. As a former rancher, horses and cattle made up my stock. If I needed cash, I'd sell a cow for up to 1000 dollars.
I love the entymology of words. Their history is facinating.
I think it's probably top 3 for me in terms of topics I've written about. I can't get enough!
Fun fact: If you bought 1 tree trunk of Apple back in the late 1970s, you'd have a forest by now.
Also, looks like you again wrote about "death pledges" on the same day where I had a Grim Reaper cartoon. No comment.
I'm inclined to let this coincidence pass, but only because the last 3 or so have been way more eerie.
Agreed. Your today's post was a bit of a shotgun blast, so it could've hit a bunch of topics. I'll leave the voodoo panic button for another day.
America has a lot of fascinating metaphors for money. If you know something about their money, some of the euphemisms are obvious ("mean greens", "Lincolns", "Jacksons", "Benjamins", "greenbacks" etc.) though the origins of some others are more obscure ("bread", "dough", "scratch", etc.)
Cheese and dough are pretty funny. If we only had tomato sauce, we could have a pizza made from money! Alas, no sauce for you.
Adding some more that I have heard as a non-finance person:
Leverage, arbitrage, hedge, inflation, portfolio, diversification, liquidity, bond, commodity, deflation, and capital.
I know the stories behind some of those, but I think there might be a part 2 in our future!
Once again an excellent conversation gong here.
Thanks, Jenny! The conversation is the main thing for me most days.
nice article. I wouldn't have gone so far back for Stock. As a former rancher, horses and cattle made up my stock. If I needed cash, I'd sell a cow for up to 1000 dollars.