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academic inflation

When more people than ever around the world are moving through the educational system resulting in people needing to have PhD's for jobs that once required MA's and MA's for jobs that once required BA's.
I couldn't get that job at the McDonald's because academic inflation caused them to only accept PhD's in burgerflipping.
by sheedarara January 20, 2013
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Trump Infatuation Syndrome

Trump Infatuation Syndrome (TIS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their infatuation of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reasoning.

Symptoms for this condition can be very diverse, ranging from sudden outbursts screaming MAGA, to a complete mental break. TIS can also often result in the sufferer exhibiting sexist/racially motivated violent outbreaks, homicidal, or even genocidal desires.

Paranoia is also a common symptom of TIS. Sufferers have been known to believe that they are in some way being persecuted through a deep state shadow government. This does not change their admiration for narcissistic authoritarian leaders and their repudiation for any check against the abuse of power.

If properly treated, suffers of TIS can make a full recovery. Treatment includes a reduction or complete elimination of Fox News, an understanding of science and reasoning, and talking to minority members of society.
Person 1: Did you hear about that meeting in Trump tower between Trump Jr and a Kremlin connected lawyer.

Person 2: That's just the deep state using the FBI to impeach Trump.

Person 1: Oh really? But didn't Trump Jr. admit to the meeting?

Person 2: The media really are the enemy of the people.

Person 1: Sounds like you have Trump Infatuation Syndrome.
by PowerfulTruth July 22, 2018
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Informationship

The mutual of exchange of information between two or more parties.
Sometimes results in the formation of a friendship and/or relationship.
Jenn and Stephanie have an informationship.
by jenn111 January 30, 2009
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information barnacle

A fact which lodges itself within one's brain and refuses to be unlearned or forgotten. Usually, but not necessarily, this fact is of a useless nature.
My high school best friend's telephone number has become an information barnacle.
by mlybrand June 20, 2009
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Information Avalanche

A condition where someone bombards you with so much of relevant or irrelevant information such that you cannot make any meaning out of it.
He created such an information avalanche such that the real data got buried somewhere under it.
by RuchirG April 8, 2010
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Inflation Destruction

The fall in investment value that accompanies derisking and deleveraging out of investments that were formerly inflated by money flows to, and carry trade investing in, high interest paying financial institutions, profitable natural resource companies, and high growth companies. Inflation destruction commenced in Brazil Financials, BRAF, and in the high growth Chinese Small Caps, HAO, in November 2010, and in Coal Producers ANR Resources, ANR, and Arch Coal, ACI in January 2011. Inflation destruction begets more of the same as former vigilant investors turn short sellers, and carry out their attack on their former investment, by going short the 200% ETFs, such as ProShares Ultra Brazil, UBR

Inflation Destruction may precede Debt Deflation which is the contraction and crisis that follows credit expansion. One of the most famous quotations of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is from page 572 of Human Action: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency involved.”
The Age of Leverage was characterised by debt expansion, credit liquidity, stability, economic growth and expansion and prosperity … and passing into The Age of Deleveraging characterised byinflation destruction, debt deflation, credit ill-liquidity, instability, economic contraction and austerity.

Inflation destruction commenced in Brazil Financials, BRAF, and in the high growth Chinese Small Caps, HAO, in November 2010, and in Coal Producers ANR Resources, ANR, and Arch Coal, ACI in January 2011. Inflation destruction begets more of the same as former vigilant investors turn short sellers and attack their former investment, by going short the 200% ETFs, such as ProShares Ultra Brazil, UBR.
by theyenguy February 25, 2011
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information zombie

1. One who continually, mindlessly, and voraciously consumes information (usually in electronic forms such as podcasts, news and entertainment sites/feeds, blogs, etc.) without the intention or effect of learning, retaining, or integrating any of what is read or heard.

2. Someone who consumes information just for information's sake

NOTE: Analogous to a traditional zombies in that the abstract object of consumption (ideas) is generated by the activity of the traditional, physical object of zombie consumption (brains).
She's such an information zombie, she spends half the day zoned out on her newsfeed.
by kayakblues March 11, 2014
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