FT Article: Ben-Speak

Financial Times
Observer: Ben-speak
Published: November 1 2005 02:00 | Last updated: November 1 2005 02:00

"As Observer noted last week, one of the qualities that George W. Bush admired about Ben Bernanke was his use of "clear, simple language" to describe complex economic ideas.

It did not take Wall Street very long to come up with a term for the language used by the nominee to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Morgan Stanley analysts David Greenlaw and Ted Wieseman have put forth the clever "Bernancular"."

Jay Thomas celebrated this staggering blow to Greenspeak until he noticed something wrong, "Dude, they spelled it wrong! And where's my name?"