The Devil's Dictionary -- Financial Edition

It's very funny.

Unfortunately, it's subscription only content for the WSJ, but if you go to this Google News link, you can read it there, because when you click through "the Google", you bypass registration.

Here is a snippet:

BANK FAILURE, n. 1. A process by which towns across America are denuded of their feckless local bankers, paving a way into the market for feckless private-equity investors. 2. An increasingly common Twitter tag that spikes on Friday afternoons. See #bankfail, #wheresmymoney, #runitsthefdic.

Heh.