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Last month, I asked my radio listeners to come up with new words to describe the abominable sense of self-entitlement that presently afflicts Wall Street bankers. I noted that terms like “greedy,” “shameful,” and “narcissistic” were way too mild to do the job. Here are a few of their creations (excluding numerous four-letter offerings):
- Banksters
- Snout-n-troughers
- Greasels
- Megalomoneyacs
- Mammonists
- SocioMBApath
- Gruppies
- Leechengrubbers
- Avaricetocrats
- Conivoraceous
- Amoral rapacious financial terrorists
- Sons of syphilitic goats (apparently a severe insult in the Middle East)
Then there’s the fellow who proposed an existing term–“psychotic.”
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