Yellow Dog or Yellow Dawg or Yaller Dawg (gold nickname)
Gold is sometimes nicknamed "yellow dog" or "yellow dawg" or "yaller dawg." "Not bad considering everyone was slamming the yellow dawg" was cited in print in…
Gold is sometimes nicknamed "yellow dog" or "yellow dawg" or "yaller dawg." "Not bad considering everyone was slamming the yellow dawg" was cited in print in…
Entry in progress -- B.P. InvestopediaWhat Does Yellow Knight Mean?A company that was once making a takeover attempt but ends up discussing a merger with the target company. The Free…
"Yentervention" (Yen + Intervention) is when a bank (such as the Bank of Japan) intervenes in the financial markets to support the Yen (Japan's official currency). The intervention…
"Yourgage" or "YOURgage" (your + mortage) is not a slang term, but a registered service mark (since May 2011) of Quicken Loans. Rather than a 15-year or a 30-year mortgage, a…
"YOYO" has been cited since at least 1988 to mean "You're On Your Own." "YOYO" has been used in medical slang as a saying to patients who leave a hospital. Jared…
Many employees on Wall Street expect to see annual bonuses. A December 2010 article in the New York (NY) Times reported on a new club called "the Zeros" -- people who didn't receive…
Zero Hedge is a popular financial blog that began in 2009. People who read and comment on ZH were given a nickname from the title of the article "The Zero Hedgies," by financial writer…
"ZIRP" (or "Zirp") stands for "Zero Interest Rate Policy." The Bank of Japan used ZIRP in 1999-2000, and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States used ZIRP in…
The term ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) has been cited in print since at least 2000. but became popular during the financial crisis of 2008. Some financial observers during the crisis speculated…
A "zombie" (as popularized in many horror movies) is someone of the living dead, who walks the earth but doesn't know that he or she is dead. A "zombie banks" is a bank…
A "zombie title" starts out as an ordinary title. A homeowner buys a home and gets a mortgage from the bank. However, the homeowner falls behind on mortgage payments. The house would…
Entry in progress -- B.P. 6 February 1992, Christian Science Monitor, "A 'Zombie Economy'" (editorial), pg. 1: ECONOMIST Robert Brusca accuses Federal Reserve Board Chairman…