A term usually sent by hackers through any type of online messaging. It is said if you reply your account might be hacked.
Hacker: Expect us.
by uhurtmybandaid September 17, 2009
When a person suffers from exhaustion of figuring out their life while trying to have the time of their life.
by Barbie9a March 19, 2008
A cutesy little phrase coined to imply that you can expect to be surprised. It comes from the marketing douchebags and only the like will utter such stupid contradiction. It is one or the other people, let's get it together.
by Protestant of Protestants April 19, 2016
*noun*; a method of representing the economy as the sum of many identical individuals and firms, each represented by a system of mathematical equations. The Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH) takes its name from the premise that economic actors, i.e., everyone, do not make consistent errors about the present or future behavior of markets.
REH was devised mainly as a rebuke to Keynesian economics, and in particular, the strategy of fiscal policy or monetary policy.
According to the REH, fiscal policy does not alter aggregate demand because the "average" person recognizes that her lifetime income is not increasing--so she needs to save rather than spend the stimulus money, in anticipation of higher taxes in the future.
At the same time, monetary policy does not work because it relies on lowering interest rates to make more money available; more money means inflation, but people have to be deceived into thinking prices for their product are going up, so they will expand production. According to REH, people or firms will figure this out, and see increased demand as mere inflation. Instead of increasing output and employment, they'll want to raise prices so they can meet their future bills.
According to REH, both monetary and fiscal policy rely on illusions to work; and since people (on average) will make rational estimates o the future, they will defeat these illusions.
REH was devised mainly as a rebuke to Keynesian economics, and in particular, the strategy of fiscal policy or monetary policy.
According to the REH, fiscal policy does not alter aggregate demand because the "average" person recognizes that her lifetime income is not increasing--so she needs to save rather than spend the stimulus money, in anticipation of higher taxes in the future.
At the same time, monetary policy does not work because it relies on lowering interest rates to make more money available; more money means inflation, but people have to be deceived into thinking prices for their product are going up, so they will expand production. According to REH, people or firms will figure this out, and see increased demand as mere inflation. Instead of increasing output and employment, they'll want to raise prices so they can meet their future bills.
According to REH, both monetary and fiscal policy rely on illusions to work; and since people (on average) will make rational estimates o the future, they will defeat these illusions.
The rational expectations hypothesis states that we can break the realization of a return into an expected return that depends on the current information set and an unexpected component that depends only on new information.
by Abu Yahya March 3, 2009
They george bushed our expectations with Sara Palin's debate.
or
They set George Bush expectations for Sara Palin before the debate.
or
They set George Bush expectations for Sara Palin before the debate.
by jjthekid January 8, 2010
The economy after the 2008 crash seems to be recovering at fast pace at the incessant sound of "better than expected". the only problem is that the predictions of what's "expected" are made by the same guys that didn't see the worse coming... when it was really better.
dude1: Hey dude? Is your wife really cheating on you and you still in this good mood?
dude2: Well.. it's because I thought she was double timing me with 3 different guys. Turned out to be only with two of them.
dude1: Oh, I get it! you're into the whole.. Better than expected thing
dude1: Hey dude? Is your wife really cheating on you and you still in this good mood?
dude2: Well.. it's because I thought she was double timing me with 3 different guys. Turned out to be only with two of them.
dude1: Oh, I get it! you're into the whole.. Better than expected thing
by mave73 July 31, 2009
A saying that means the more you expect out of something, the more disappointed you'll be when the outcome arrives. So always lower your expectations so you won't feel disappointed about the outcome, but never worry about it either.
by CelticEagle February 14, 2019