Jargon
October 9th, 2008 5:48 pm | by John Jansen |Traffic on this blog has exploded over the past month. I welcome all of the new readers and thank those who have loyally visited since I began in January.With the new readership I have experienced an increase in complaints about my use of jargon. I use the jargon because I want this to have an inside baseball feel. I think that is what makes this so unique and so well accepted.
However, I fully understand the complaints of those who do not know the lingo. I will not stop using it but might explain in parentheses.
Or if anyone wishes they can email me and if I get enough requests maybe I can write a post which answers the questions.
So the bottom line is that I will keep the jargon flowing but I will try to be kinder and gentler in explaining what something means.
If anyone else has a suggestion which might be helpful, please let me know.
And thank you very much for reading.
60 Responses to “Jargon”
By Matt Dubuque on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Please DON’T STOP using “jargon”!!!
It is up to people, who have been wasting their time not paying attention, to get up to speed on their own.
We don’t need yet another dumbed down website.
Your website is very good. Keep up the fine work!
Matt
By Shane on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Suggestion: Intelligent Adult Americans take charge of their own education and learn the jargon. Or don’t. And if you don’t, then don’t whine.
Rise to occasions. Don’t expect lowered intellectual standards JUST FOR YOU.
By ird on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
i think things are great as is, as previously mentioned this site provides insight/info into the market you will only get on a trading floor. funny someone pointed out across the curve, im an ex bear guy myself and this blog has helped tremendously in keeping me up to date on the happenings in various markets.
By Kate on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Don’t worry about the jargon. It’s easy enough to look up explanations and find out a whole lot more while doing it!
By Marshall on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Keep using the jargon.
By David on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
The jargon is fine if I could only figure out what it means. I agree with Paul’s comment. Many business have their own lexicon and I don’t mind looking words up as I learn more about things that way. I am stumped on the “IG 11” A postal code in London? Keep up the good work!
By Dave on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Creating or linking to an existing financial glossary should suffice for most if not all jargon haters.
By Mr Denmore on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
As a former finace journalist, I think you should keep doing what you do,otherwise you’ll end up reading like Bloomberg – where journos spend so much effort ‘explaining’ everrthing to some mythical everyman reader that they drain all the life out of the storyOr worsethey are so intent on constructing a neat narrative around complex and fast moving events that they mislad their readers..
By allbetsareoff on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
It’s high time insiders came out and explained market intricacies to those of us who’ve paid our money and taken our chances. One of the reasons trust has collapsed and panic is ensuing is the pervasive sense that nobody really knows what’s going on. And the reason for that: Too few people who do know what’s going on have explained it in plain language to non-specialists.
Perhaps you’re not the person to do that, John. But if people like you don’t step up, then we’re stuck with the explanatory skills of financial journalists and academics and the spin of CEOs and politicians.
By Dick L Vogel on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Fine! I came at your place today, via Krugman. Here i feel like i can see the actual functioning of the world, in its economical mode. Monitors in an emergency room. Feel like i get a direct and uncompromised view onto a reality that is happening now, while the clock ticks time. An ‘economics’-reality, described in a fitting language. A lot of details i do not grasp. But then and again there’s a sentence that places outlines in focus and you’re very clear.
Thank you