1) one who subscribes to foolish economic principles such as trickle-down and voodoo economics, pyramids, ponzi schemes, fuzzy math, and similar financial snake-oils.
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1. Describes a sexual act that could have occurred between two close friends as they share a shower together while one person is supposedly reading the Economist, or
2. Describes the use of a completely non-sensical excuse to explain why a guy and a girl were in the shower at the same time.
1. Describes a sexual act that could have occurred between two close friends as they share a shower together while one person is supposedly reading the Economist, or
2. Describes the use of a completely non-sensical excuse to explain why a guy and a girl were in the shower at the same time.
"Hey..we knocked on the door for like 15 minutes and no one answered..where were you?"
"In the shower with my friend."
"DOING WHAT?!"
"I was cold, so I decided to sit in the bathroom and absorb the steam, and so I was reading the Economist while I was there."
"..."
"In the shower with my friend."
"DOING WHAT?!"
"I was cold, so I decided to sit in the bathroom and absorb the steam, and so I was reading the Economist while I was there."
"..."
by Neb Nimajney August 24, 2006
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one who, starting from a position of over-educated and under-informed logical supposition, commences making erroneous and devastating judgements about the functioning of the world, and then formally codifies their misunderstanding in dogmatic and arrogant absurdity
by maoctopus August 7, 2011
Get the economist mug.An Esoteric Economist is some who follows the Esoteric school of thought. Esoteric economists argue that wage labor wouldn’t exist in a truly free market and that Bitcoin can abolish the state. Esoteric economist also argue that governments are unsustainable and that value isn’t subjective or determined by labor. They argue that value is determined by praxeology.
Esoteric Economist: “In a truly free market. The economy will be run by self-employed people and speculative networks”
Esoteric Economist: “If the majority of the population buys Bitcoin. You’ll be able to abolish the state”
Esoteric Economist: “The state model is inherently unsustainable and will always collapse”
Esoteric Economist: “If the majority of the population buys Bitcoin. You’ll be able to abolish the state”
Esoteric Economist: “The state model is inherently unsustainable and will always collapse”
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Get the Esoteric Economist mug.An economist, in the most typical sense of the word, is a failed comedian turned professor whose faith in the fun factor of his subject is nil. On paper, economists are renowned for their dry and unnecessarily convoluted writing, which is only worsened when a topic inspires them to try to be funny. In person, economists maintain supercilious attitudes to each other and to the rest of world and deservedly so – few people have the stunning courage necessary to challenge themselves with the gruelingly difficult questions in a college, high school, or graduate school introductory lecture. Economists are, with the exception of cult leaders, quite possibly the only group of people in the world that can be so consistently wrong and so stubbornly steadfast in their commitment to making public predictions. The perpetual failure to be right also contributes to the arrogance of your typical economist because blue collar slobs don’t make multiple billion dollar mistakes regularly and blue collar slobs certainly don’t get promoted for those mistakes. Nowhere in the world is an economist more worshipped than within his own circle of indistinguishable colleague economists and, still further, within his own head.
The surest way to know what won’t happen in the future is to ask an economist what he thinks will happen.
As a general rule of thumb, an economist is as certain as he is unaccountable - that is to say, always and completely.
As a general rule of thumb, an economist is as certain as he is unaccountable - that is to say, always and completely.
by blueredyellow November 8, 2009
Get the economist mug.1. An economist or talking head who sings the praises of the wealthy corporations while glossing over the miserable state of the working class. This would generally include the majority of all economists since only the wealthy corporations can afford to hire official excuse-makers.
2. Roughly, anyone who tells you to "whistle while you work".
3. One who plays the skin flute for his corporate daddies in exchange for Ass Tokens.
The word 'highfallutin' is based on a midwestern slang pronunciation of high + fluting or flutin'. The adjective is meant to humorously contrast the fancy and ghey sounds of a flautist (flute player) with the seriousness of everything else in the real world.
2. Roughly, anyone who tells you to "whistle while you work".
3. One who plays the skin flute for his corporate daddies in exchange for Ass Tokens.
The word 'highfallutin' is based on a midwestern slang pronunciation of high + fluting or flutin'. The adjective is meant to humorously contrast the fancy and ghey sounds of a flautist (flute player) with the seriousness of everything else in the real world.
That high-fluting economist thinks he's really something special in his fancy suit and gold watch. He's just putting lipstick on a pig.
My boss has been listening to that high-fluting economist on Fox News and now he's got the Ayn Rand Effect so I could get fired just for showing up today.
My boss has been listening to that high-fluting economist on Fox News and now he's got the Ayn Rand Effect so I could get fired just for showing up today.
by FLSqueezed July 21, 2011
Get the High-Fluting Economist mug.A guy who answers a question with absolute certainty and then claims he thought he was answering a different question based on people's reaction when he is wrong in order to manifest himself being correct.
John : "Where are crocodiles found?"
Wombat : "They're only found in Australia"
John : *googles it* "No, they're found in Africa and both North and South America as well"
Wombat : "OH! I thought the question was where are crocodiles native to"
John : "You are a Schrodinger's Economist"
Wombat : "They're only found in Australia"
John : *googles it* "No, they're found in Africa and both North and South America as well"
Wombat : "OH! I thought the question was where are crocodiles native to"
John : "You are a Schrodinger's Economist"
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