Enronomics

noun

Etymology

Blend of Enron + economics, after Enron, a company that collapsed through accounting fraud.

derived from *nem-✻ — “to distribute; to give; to take”
derived from *weyḱ-✻ — “(verb) to enter in; to settle; (noun) settlement”
derived from οἰκονομῐκός — “skilled in household management; frugal, thrifty, economical”
derived from oeconomicus — “(noun) household manager, housekeeper, steward; (adjective) relating to orderly arrangement of written material”
derived from iconomike — “(noun) household management; person in charge of household management; (adjective) relating to household management; relating to domestic or family matters; relating to management of a state; reducing costs or expenses, economical”
derived from iconomique
inherited from economike
compounded as enronomics — “Enron + economics”

1
creative accounting, or accounting fraud
- Alas, we are reduced to desperately seeking Toto, in need of someone to go behind the curtain and tell us that the wizard's name is enronomics.
- And, in the financial sector, this weakening continued as a blind eye was turned to the parallels between 'Enronomics' and the use of leveraged debt to engage in the creation and trading of exotic financial products.

No curated loop yet for Enronomics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA