Definitions

Accreditation: platform to sell academic books at a premium

Apophenia: wonderful imagination and a chartist's nightmare

Beta: a canard

Bureaucrat: bureaucracy blind

Business Plan: organized inaccurate forecasts

Cable News: broken

Commercial Banker: debt

Committee: Diversification of responsibility and executioner of ideas

Conventional Wisdom: wrong

Coordinated Resource Action Plan: promise to its acronym

Jim Cramer: barnumesque

Ray Dalio: someone to listen to

Day Trader: hobbyist ignorant of loss

Economics: collection of mood

Milton Friedman: someone to pay attention to

Fund Manager: an endangered specie without protection of a fish and wildlife service

Greeks: folks who do not distinguish between math and mood

High Frequency Trading: technical method of speed dating

Internet: I Love Lucy confectionery conveyor belt of information

Investment Adviser: seller of cream-puffs

Investment Analyst: overpaid flipper of coins

Investment Banker: marketeer

Iron Bronteroc: Two pairs trades of different stocks to optimize returns based on differing stock frequencies

Leechigious: investment industry

Net Present Value: method to present bad ideas otherwise

Options: convenient method of over-leveraging

Present Value: a formula without vision

Professor: an underpaid talk show host competing with Facebook

Regulation: market return less expenses

Ripple Effect: small things creating large changes while people sleep

Trends: romance novel

WACC: see Beta