Top Ten Thursday: Top 10 Favorite Words from the Current Financial Meltdown

During our recent Grizwaldesque Thanksgiving road trip to North Dakota, I had a chance to catch up on all of the awesome NPR Planet Money podcasts. This is great programming and well worth the price of the download (it's free, btw).

Anyway, this crash course in the crashing economy gave me a new appreciation for some of the financial lingo. This week, I rank my Top 10 Favorite Words from the Current Financial Meltdown.

The main criteria was how cool I thought the words sounded, but I gave bonus points for the potential for double entendre.

Top 10 Favorite Words
from the Current Financial Meltdown
10) Collateralized Debt Obligation

9) Mortgage-backed security

8) NINJA loan -- No Income? No Job or Assets? No problem.

7) Swap line -- I've heard of parties in Overland Park where these were popular.

6) Troubled Asset -- Do these jeans make my assets look troubled?

5) Naked Short Selling

4) Deflation -- "I swear baby, this has never happened to me before..."

3) Stimulus package -- We've covered this before.

2) TED Spread -- That TED is such a floozy

1) Capital Injection

There you have it. As always, if you think I'm wrong on the ranking or if I missed something, feel free to say so in the comments.

tagged: economy, Top Ten, Ted Spread, glossary, Capital injection, Stimulus, Asset