LSD? What? In a Financial Dictionary?

Ok, no, this isn't some kind of a 60s flashback thing. Well, part of it might seem to be, but our definitions here are more of a commentary on the happenings in the modern world.

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1. LSD ell-ess-dee, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. A nasty little derivative (no not THAT kind) from rye ergot, whatever the hell ergot is sounds like mold to me... I could look it up, but don't want to take the time right now and I'm sure that you have immediate access to a search engine of choice [but I digress].

Anyway, an organization called Acolytica uses it regularly as a mode of control in what they call "conditioning" to prepare their followers for what they call "The Harvest" which is supposed to happen soon in what they call "The Future." The Acolytica boys give it the cute little euphemism "Leary."

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2. LSD, in a world facing Armageddon (the bloodhound NOT the big event), this stands for the Triad who runs The Other Place, made up of Luci, Ese, and D (Mr. Evil Himself). OK, so the actual construction of the acronym is a little loose and free on this one.

And the reason these things are included in a Financial Dictionary is because they are RELEVANT to finance in the modern world. After all, Mr. Evil Himself sat in on the creation of the Derivative as a specifically defined unit of financial bullsh*t.

Digress

v. 1) skirt the issue, 2) lose track of the issue because of someone's short skirt, 3) make shit up because you can't remember the lie you told last time

e.g. "I couldn't follow what that sumbitch was sayin' because he digressed so much from what the hell he was supposed to be talkin' about."


[ed: kind of like a derivative, but not exactly, ok maybe not even close, but it does begin with the same letter]

It's Quite Complicated, You See

"It's Quite Complicated, You See" is a common phrase used to blow smoke up the listener's arse in the following situations:

You could, of course, dump your dollars and pounds for gold in offshore accounts, but of course it's quite complicated, you see, to understand exactly how it all works.

Things would be a lot better of for all of us if American and Western European workers would be willing to take the same wages as, say, any other freakin' place in the world, but it's quite complicated, you see, to get them all to do that.

When we want to steal people blind with market manipulations, misstated revenues, under-reported expenses, and the like, we just tell them it's quite complicated, you see, far beyond your capability to understand.

Derivative

n. highly addictive complex narcotic, which often results in ego inflation, loss of reality, and hoarding syndrome; grown worldwide, but most prevalent in Manhattan, London, Zurich, Beijing and Hong Kong.

As in:

A home builder and a mortgage banker were chatting in the waiting room at the Chicken Ranch in Nevada. The home builder seemed exceptionally morose for the circumstances and the banker asked him why.
"Can't sell all the freakin' houses I'm building."
"You could lower prices," the banker said.
"What? And give up the Ferrari? There's got to be a way we can get more people into houses."
"How about a derivative?"
"What's a freakin' derivative."
"It's kind of a money game. We invent a loan that everybody can afford, even if we know up front that the suckers can never pay it off. Then we pass it around in a circle, each of us taking a chunk of money in fees (added to the loan) when it comes by."
"Won't somebody get stuck with a crap loan at some point?"
"Sure," the banker said. "That's why it's a derivative. Everybody in the game derives money from it, up to the point where somebody gets screwed."
The builder still looked a little puzzled, then his eyes brightened. "But I get mine UP FRONT. Cool!"
"Yeah," the banker said. "Cool."