1. What a credit company or subprime mortgage agent has in you when you are maxed out, can't pay and they've tripled the interest rate they charge.
2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
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2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
greed + meathooks
ABC credit lending gave me a preapproved $5000.00 loan, so I took it because I had bills piling up. Now I got in an accident and lost my job. Now the company has their greedhooks in me.
by Astor G. March 20, 2008
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noun, greed + catastrophe.
1. General, where greed on the part of one party causes a catastrophe to some other party. Example: some resource harvester (mining, forestry, fishing) rips-off the putative resource owners without adequate compensation, usually with wider negative effects such as pollution (mining, forestry) and/or resource depletion (all, but especially fishing; no fish no eat.)
2. Specific, where the catastrophe referred to is the possible - going most probable - negative effect on our environment, thought to result from ever-increasing CO2 build-up in the atmosphere, this CO2 build-up in turn being one result of fossil-fuel burning, mature forest clearing etc.
This catastrophe is also referred to as climate change, aka global warming, aka greenhouse-effect.
The term greedastrophe indicates the prime cause of, and major hindrance to effective action against, this CO2 build-up, much feared by compassionate realists - and much dismissed by pushed-paradigm apologists, spruikers and/or lying (criminal!) propagandists.
Note: greed is *not* good; never was and certainly not now. Wo/mankind has made great progress - by cooperating; now our very world is threatened by the greedy acts of a dastardly few. The name of the game is not 'rip-off your neighbour,' but enlightened altruism; do no harm.
noun, greed + catastrophe.
1. General, where greed on the part of one party causes a catastrophe to some other party. Example: some resource harvester (mining, forestry, fishing) rips-off the putative resource owners without adequate compensation, usually with wider negative effects such as pollution (mining, forestry) and/or resource depletion (all, but especially fishing; no fish no eat.)
2. Specific, where the catastrophe referred to is the possible - going most probable - negative effect on our environment, thought to result from ever-increasing CO2 build-up in the atmosphere, this CO2 build-up in turn being one result of fossil-fuel burning, mature forest clearing etc.
This catastrophe is also referred to as climate change, aka global warming, aka greenhouse-effect.
The term greedastrophe indicates the prime cause of, and major hindrance to effective action against, this CO2 build-up, much feared by compassionate realists - and much dismissed by pushed-paradigm apologists, spruikers and/or lying (criminal!) propagandists.
Note: greed is *not* good; never was and certainly not now. Wo/mankind has made great progress - by cooperating; now our very world is threatened by the greedy acts of a dastardly few. The name of the game is not 'rip-off your neighbour,' but enlightened altruism; do no harm.
The greedastrophe may be the greatest crisis ever to be faced, and if not avoided, may be our last crisis.
The greedastrophe is *everyone's* business: gotta stop it!
Avoiding the greedastrophe will require we the people to deploy countervailing power against (venal!) vested interests. In our so-called democracies (US, UK, Aus & Israel, say) the only lever we possess is our so-called representatives, they must now change to *properly* representing us.
The greedastrophe is *everyone's* business: gotta stop it!
Avoiding the greedastrophe will require we the people to deploy countervailing power against (venal!) vested interests. In our so-called democracies (US, UK, Aus & Israel, say) the only lever we possess is our so-called representatives, they must now change to *properly* representing us.
by phil kendall March 31, 2008
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when your rich friend doesn't want to pay for something or doesn't pay you back. A friendly or tame term for jewbee or jewbag.
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