So what words make you laugh/cry/whatever at their misuse changing their meaning? Slang need not apply. I used to rage at people/infotainment outlets using "decimate" when they meant "annihilate". I ...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." --Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride" It would be easy to say that everything I ever needed to know I learned from "The ...

And hey, you have at least some leverage to correct such mistakes. I have to silently ignore them, as they are not core to my job. I only get to correct people when doing so is materially relevant to ...

There’s a worrying trend here, and it’s not complacency. Rather, it’s the use of the term “tail risk” to mean “priced-in and foreseeable euro crisis”. Last year, everybody was worried that Greece ...