Why we're all suffering from electile dysfunction

The world economy is facing unprecedented difficulties. Never in history
have so many governments done so much to restore their economies with
such limited results. New realities need new words, so here is the new
economic lexicon.

Source: Signals - How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's
Turbulent Economy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Signals-Everyday-Navigate-Turbulent-Economy/dp/1474603505/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466560748&sr=1-1&keywords=Signals

_*Cashtration: *_
The feeling of impotence that arises when you realise that more than 50
per cent of your income is now spent on rent/mortgage and food — and you
still have to pay more for train fares and school fees.

_*Electile dysfunction: *_
The inability to become aroused by any political candidates or their
policies.

_*Prenters*__*:*_
People who once would have lived in homes they owned but will now be
permanently renting.

_*Intaxation*__*:*_
The feeling of elation that sweeps over you upon receipt of a tax
refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to begin with.

_*Boomerang kids*__*:*_
Young adults who appear to have left the family home for good but move
back in due to the high cost of living outside the home and their
limited ability to find a decent paying job (youth cashtration). The
number of people in this category in Britain is now more than two million.

_*Zigzagging*__*:*_
A strategy deployed in grocery stores and shops to confuse the consumer
and make it easier to hide upward price movements. Two-for-one or
three-for-two deals are offered and then removed so as to mask the fact
that the price for one is suddenly higher than it used to be.

_*Shrinkflation*__*:*_
The process by which the consumer pays the same price as ever for a
product but now finds far less of the product inside the packaging.
Cereal boxes are now only half full and crisp packets contain far fewer
crisps.


_*Meltup: *_
A “meltdown� occurs when the stock market suddenly falls by a lot. A
“meltup�, by contrast, occurs when money enters the economy so fast that
asset prices (stocks markets and property) increase in value very
rapidly. Policymakers always want to avoid meltdowns at all costs but
are happy to threaten them if or when the public chooses policy options
which current policymakers do not like. For example, the economy will
“melt down� if the public chooses to exit the European Union.

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