Ecomoronic

Really, really dumb about economics.

Alternative definition: Really, really dumb about ecology.

The recent tariff nothing-burgers have been an exercise in ecomoronics.

Denying the effects of global warming is ecomoronic.

by VerMerr May 18, 2025

econobonics

Meaningless gibberish about economics meant to make an ignorant writer sound authoritative.

...in the comments there was some minor quibbling and tut-tutting and a healthy-heapin’ handful of econobonics words like “predictive,” “multi-causal,” “independent predictor,” “differing methodologies,” and “intervening assumptions” ...

(from tbogg at firedoglake dot com, 2010-07-27, "Quivering-with-antici-pation")

by Tehanu July 28, 2010