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by pg-gadfly 2214 days ago
It reminds me of cult-speak, where everything has to be redefined according to some abstract higher level representation, even when it's simple.
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This is typical in finance. Many of the financial "instruments" are given funny nouns that hide the true character of what they are (usually shitty loans, or stocks being sold at a mark-up).