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Looking for 2013’s Word of the Year

Dear Friends,

We’re working on our January issue. As part of the intro we wanted to speculate about (heck, maybe even trademark and make some cash from) 2013’s word of the year. Since you’re a lot more crafty and creative, we thought we would turn to you for help in finding it. I know that bondpocalypse is on the horizon and wouldn’t be surprised if we end up talking about a Frankenfund or two. Chip was favorable toward bondtastrophe or bondaclysm and we may even have a tiny, tiny cheap shot at guys whose names begin with “B.”

We'd love to include you and your word. Just reply to this discussion by New Year’s Eve (Happy New Year’s everyone!) and we’ll feature cool words in our January intro.

Thanks as always,

David

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  • hey Mr Snowball/MFO staff. Thanks for all you do and we do appreciate your website very much. We would contribute as much as possible into MFO and amazon linkage

    what about 'bagarre' - meaningful word describing the wallstreet mentality and what's going in gov.
  • beebee
    edited January 2013
    Hmmm...maybe instead of boondoggle...Bond Doggle.

    Also just finished an article by James Paulsen...he refers to the upcoming "Bond PAIN"...sounded like the "Pains of Bondage" to me.

    From his recent article:
    "a normal historical valuation range is a bond yield between 2 and 4 percent above the rate of core inflation. Today, just to reach the bottom of this normal valuation range, the 10-year yield would need to rise to about 4 percent. Moreover, relative to the core inflation rate bonds are currently more expensive than about 95 percent of the time since 1960. Not only should bond investors have paltry return expectations, but bond holdings may become hazardous to investment health."
    james-paulsen-2013-investment-outlook/

    Thanks, your website has kept me out of the bars...and out from behind them...at least for now.
  • edited December 2012
    Perhaps not along the lines of what you're looking for, but offered for your consideration nonetheless...

    Of Human Bond-age
    Bondfire of the Vanities
    Nothing Will Yield But Something Will Have to Give
    Year of the Dog
    Bagelopoly

  • edited December 2012
    How about: bondheads:)

    Usage:

    Don't be such a bondhead! Sell your bonds before it's too late.
  • edited December 2012
    For 2013

    - Bonds will continue to run for part of the year. PONDX may be up another 20% by April 1. "Bubblemania" may be fitting here.

    - There will be changes at the Fed, either in the composition or in the form of new more restrictive monetary policy. Expect to be hearing the term "New Fed" (or a clipped version) by year's end.

    - Europe will rebound, having an uncharistically good year. "Eurobound" may come into play.

    - As higher yielding bond funds stall-out and returns turn negative, "bubblemania" will be replaced by "bond malaise".

    - Eventually, perhaps in 2014, "bondslide" and "bondbust" will both be commonly used to characterize what has happened. Don't rule out "bondfire" if it gets really nasty. (The latter would sound especially cool enunciated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer.)

    - "Boomer Bust" may eventually come to identify the group hardest hit.


    Here's a glossary of terms as 2012 comes to an end

    Bondscapades -- scampering to own an asset as it nears "zero coupon" value
    Bondfest -- carnival-like celebration characterized by over-indulgence
    Bondnesia -- condition wherein one is unable to remember when government bonds yielded more than 2 or 3 percent, often accompanied by oblivion to rising prices
    Bondophyte - newcomer to bond investing - knows they only go up in value
    Bond science - the opposite of rocket science
    Bonds Galore (or Bonda) - to replace Pussy Galore in next Ian Fleming flick

    Cliffenomics -- an organized effort at the highest levels to run the economy into the ground
    Cliffsmanship -- the art or practice of cliffenomics
    Cliffomania -- an all-consuming interest in cliffenomics
    Crashmasters -- an elite group (consisting of nearly everyone) who intend to exit bond funds - all at the right time

    Junkluster -- powerful allure of an asset previously considered of dubious worth

    Also, here's my nomination for most representative book title as we enter the new year ---
    "Bubbles A Broad" by Sarah Strohmeyer (2005). http://www.amazon.com/Bubbles-A-Broad-Books/dp/0451411773
    No, it's not really about finance. Just a light read about the trials and tribulations of Bubbles Yablonsky, a young hair dresser with a newly minted journalism degree ..... But - catchy title?

    David: Thanks for all you do and for this opportunity to test the "rhetorical waters" without causing angst for other posters as am sometimes prone to do! --- Regards, hank

  • edited December 2012
    I'm slow on the uptake. Are we looking for any made up word about what we perceive to happen with bonds in 2013. Or is it any coined word relating to anything financial, fund, bond etf etc.

    my silly bond words.

    bondacious - what you are if you hold lots of bonds before the melt down

    bondacity - not sure if it it is tied to mendacity or pomposity

    bondificate - to speak pompously about bonds

    port-bond-manteau - a tmesis of a bond portmanteau

    billet-bond-doux - a love letter from your bonds saleman.

    billings-bonds-gate - what you say to your bond salesman when he tries to sell you a bad one.

    bondhomie - a bond with a pleasant disposition

    bondegreen - see mondegreen

    inbondicated - someone who is inebriated from having too many bonds.


    You know you are inbondicated, if you are bondacious and have the bondacity to bondificate about port-bond-manteau, so beware the billet-bond-doux and prepare to reply with a billings-bonds-gate if you don't have a bondhomie. You heard me correctly, it was no bondegreen



    There was a bondholder named Dave
    his bonds, they would not cave
    a new year
    full of fear
    bonds he no longer does crave

  • A Year Without "Our Fund Boat."
  • edited December 2012
    The Bond Blues ... Coined after the Blues Brothers ... It is for sure trouble is brewing with
    bonds being too popular and over the top for their own good ... and, with no resolve in site.

    You have gotta love Jake & Elwood! "Too popular and over the top for their own good."



    Will it be Daisy Duke to the rescue ... You've gotta love those shorts ... That might again become the fashion ... Short duration.



    So ... Are bonds over the top?

    In seeking an answer ... we sought out James Bond, aka 007 ...

    http://www.youtube.com/user/jamesbond007/featured

    So if you believe bonds are over the top ... Watch your duration!

    Hope you enjoyed.

    Skeeter

  • I don't want all these bond downers to turn into a self fulfilling prophecy, so I would prefer something a little more positive with respect to bonds. Bondage - def: one's attachment to their bond investments.
  • edited December 2012
    Taco Bellrung: Think outside the bond.

    Mercedes Bonds: Engineered to remove the human spirit.

    M&M bonbonds: melts in your hand not in your mouth.

    Maxed well House (of reprehensibles) coffer: Good to the last drop.

    Booned, James Booned .007 of a basis point.

    Energeezer bunny income: It keeps going and going (bond voyage)

    Ben's Farm wine: a bold slash of fruit (bond appetit)

    The point is not the upcoming bond debacle be that as it may
    or may not but the present and ongoing debacle in terms of
    risk/reward, the abysmal yield for a given level of risk.

    Bondfire of the vanities, good one.

    Since 2007, central banks have flooded the world financial system with more than $11 trillion.

    http://www.globaliamagazine.com/?id=1404

    $11t and counting amounts to conjuring the world's second largest economy
    materialized from aether.










  • Hi David,

    Hope you're having great holidays.

    Racetodebase.

    peace,

    rono
  • How about polivestor. It is one who overlays their investment choices over their political views rather than overlaying their political views over their investment choices. We all do it some just more than others.
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  • edited December 2012

    "CBUBPP", pronounced "see-BUB-pee". Not an eastern European dessert; but more of a western government add-on condiment, not unlike Tabasco sauce; purportedly good with almost any investment dish . To date, it appears that "see-BUB-pee" continues to provide various flavor outcomes to one's RO-RO. RO-RO would be that Risk Off/Risk On menu traveling among various investment cafes and roadhouses these days.
    The RO-RO cafes and roadhouses just can't resist sitting bottles of "see-BUB-pee" upon the investment tables, as the product is delivered "free" each and every month, whether requested or not.
    Additionally, as there is not a higher authority to regulate "see-BUB-pee", the presumption must be in place that the product is an additive into all investment menu choices, at all invesmtent cafes and roadhouses.
    Rest assured that the B&D Condiment factory is running 3 shifts, 7 days a week. Mr. "A trillion here, and a trillion there" Bernanke and Mr. "Whatever it takes" Draghi have their fingers crossed in hope, that CBUBPP (Central Bank Unlimited Bond Purchase Program) will chase away their fears of deflation, high unemployment and delevering, to a growth scenario of some consequence.
    Keep in mind that one's RO-RO investment dish is already flavored with CBUBPP, whether ordered that way or not, or applied; by one, directly from the open bottle upon the investment dining table.
    Good eating to one and all.
    A contrived word, better acronym, "see-BUB-pee", but with several utterings; almost rolls off one's tongue.

    Respectfully,
    Catch
  • Reply to @catch22:

    Actually, I thing it's "see-bub-pee-pee".
  • catch22: Based on this latest post you need to take your "Fund Boat" along with your "CBUBPP" and head out to sea.
  • edited December 2012
    I tend to think the eventual result for the bond market will be similar to what must happens after this guy does one of his eating challenges:



    This video shows a professional eater eating the entire Hobbit menu at Denny's. That's about 8,600 calories. In under 20 minutes.

    In another video on his Youtube channel, he eats 60 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in under 10 minutes.

    I was not aware, but there is apparently a massive legion of people on Youtube who are professional eaters who come up with insane challenges just to put on Youtube outside of competitions.

    Oh, and the word, bondarrhea.
  • Hey Maurice ...

    Here in Carolina ... Cat Daddy ... is some of the finest shine made. It's history dates back to famed Stock Car Driver, Junior Johsnon ... He actually did time running the stuff. The families best in the old days was known as Cat Daddy. Today it can be bought through the local ABC store.

    Below is a link to Piedmont Distillery ... and more about Cat Daddy ...

    http://www.catdaddymoonshine.com/

    Perhaps a little of the Cat Daddy babe and a little of the Cat Daddy shine would blend well together?

    Skeeter
  • Hi Anna,
    You may be correct; the second "pee" may not be silent.
    Have a great start to your new year.
    Regards,
    Catch
  • edited December 2012
    Howdy Ted,
    You are away to a fine start of the almost new year.
    Don't worry, I suspect we are all out to sea in today's investment world; somewhere between the Strait of Magellan and the Horse Latitudes.
    Hoping that we all will be able to at least bring forth more than a 5% return for the 2013 year.
    Take care of you and yours,
    Catch
  • edited December 2012
    Hi scott,
    I too, think that eventually there may be some dismay in some bond sectors; but all should keep their shields in place for other sectors, too. We don't live in an uncorrelated market place. Watch your RO-RO.
    Take care,
    Catch
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  • edited December 2012
    Enjoyed the nice lookin scenery courtesy of Skeeter & others. And the word game courtesy of David was fun ... But, serious points of contention? In this thread ? Yikes!
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