Comments on: Has the Global Economic Crisis – or GEC – got us?

By: bill

bill — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:28:10 +0000

A couple of groaners…

We have A.D.D., American Deficit Disorder

Some of us have O.C.D., Obliterated Countries Disorder

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:15:34 +0000

Okay, here’s an acronym from “anonymous” —
“How ’bout the GMVWUC…for the Global Misplaced Values Wake-Up Call. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.”
Well, I like it anyway. Try pronouncing it! Sounds like a mash-up of US car companies — or should I say a pile-up?…

By: patricia gras

patricia gras — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:19:30 +0000

GEM
global economic mess

It’s a gem because it will teach us how to live differently PERHAPS

By: Me

Me — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:05:53 +0000

How about Heny Paulson’s “SHIT” – Structured Housing Investment Trust (i.e the bank bailout)

By: Helen Tan

Helen Tan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:26:39 +0000

Giant
Egg
Cracking

This is a follow up on Jenny’s GEC and my contribution from a housewife’s point of view on the global economic crisis. GEC sounds like the cracking of an egg!

I chose egg as I think our global environment is fragile like an egg shell with cracks everywhere. Once cracked, the content spills out and well if you’ve ever had to clean a mess after an egg spill – it’s sticky, slippery, not an easy mess to clear yet it looks contained and manageable.

By: Barton George

Barton George — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:24:46 +0000

Worldwide Total Fail: WTF

By: Valeria Villarroel

Valeria Villarroel — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:37:55 +0000

Hmm … I’m not very good at coming up with acronyms, but perhaps just a term I can contribute?
Governmental Fail … I just like the quick wittedness and sarcasm and truth that fits into that term.

By: Erik Spike Thiesmeyer

Erik Spike Thiesmeyer — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:03:58 +0000

Media Initiated Financial Frenzy – MIFF

Global Assets Gauged by Meager Economy – GAGME

Obamas Oratory for Peoples Stimulus – OOPS

By: Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:27:38 +0000

I favor Kara Swisher’s ‘Econolypse’ but that doesn’t lend itself to an acronym.

By: Barney Sherman

Barney Sherman — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:58:33 +0000

GEC is perfection, and nothing I came up with will have that perfect combination of sound and sense and memorability. Still, as you say, just for laughs:

Global Asset Deleveraging – GAD

Awful Unwinding Meltdown – AUM

Great Unwinding Trainwreck – GUT

Badly Overleveraged Asset Trainwreck – BOAT

Toxic Asset Meltdown Panic – TAMP

Global Credit Bubble & Crash -GCBC

By: anthea raymond

anthea raymond — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:33:48 +0000

GEC works for me quite possibly because of the gagging sound evoked. we’re in for a long slow retch on this one.

By: lee Goldberg

lee Goldberg — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:28:32 +0000

Global Economic Meltdown Offers Rude Awakening – GEMORA –

The global economic meltdown is Biblical. It speaks of the result that Greed and immoral behavior can bring to a society where the actions of a few can bring dire consequences for us all.
The bible should have been a warning of what happened in Sodom & Gemorrah when immorality, greed and sin overtakes the very fabric of society. Everybody, even the innocents, suffer the consequences.

Regards, Lee Goldberg

By: Leighton

Leighton — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:49:10 +0000

WODD — world order down the drain

By: William

William — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:05:30 +0000

I always thought “The GBR” captured it well. “The Great Brain Robbery”

By: Dale Hobson

Dale Hobson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:42:46 +0000

How about GRR–for Great Republican Rip-off or Global Resources Rape. I don’t want to spit or hurl; I want to bite.