Money Talks
   When it comes to discussing money, incomprehension is a form of
   consent. When it comes to discussing money, incomprehension is a form
   It’s the same when you hear money people talk about the effect of QE2
   The language of money works like that, too. It is potent and efficient,
   home, my father couldn’t bear to talk about money; his own father had
   been the type of control freak who uses money to express that control.
   that my father worked in the world of money gave me a sense that it
   anything having to do with money and economics. It’s almost as if they
   story behind the story turned out to concern money. I realized that you
   Money people don’t need to explain that terminology to themselves, or
   What often vexes the language of money is something I’ve come to call
   they’re doing and can afford to lose their money. They’re expensive,
   two per cent of the money you’ve invested in the fund, and also twenty
   yield; in this case, the money to repay the loan would come from
   saying, “I have a lot of money coming in over the next ten years from
   familiar. An institution lends money to a range of different borrowers.
   lending. Instead, that money flows to the people who bought the
   mortgage-backed securities, and the institution that lent the money no
   the basic premise of banking—that you lend money only to people who can
   “predatory lending,” in which people were loaned money they couldn’t
   that it means an injection of public money into a failing institution;
   money being worth less. “Synergy” means sacking people. “Risk” means
   people who can speak money.
   Using the language of money does not imply acceptance of any particular
   moral or ideological framework. Money person A and money person B,
   order to increase the money supply—is the only thing saving the economy
   The language of money is a powerful tool, and it is also a tool of
   “How to Speak Money,” came out earlier this month.