Zombie banks and nations: more on the economy as monster

October 16, 2008

Zombie banks and nations: more on the economy as monster

More Gothic memes for the new economy -

"Zombie banks": the Wall Street Journal uses this to describe banks shambling along after financial death.

The WSJ also compares the crisis to a horror movie.

John Robb picks up on the zombie language: Zombie Nation-states.

(thanks to Steven Kaye)

October 16, 2008 at 06:36 in Gothic as everyday life | Permalink

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Those zombies will slowly decay, with new zombies being created. That horde of zombies will be created by American Banking, called International Banking. I might have gotten the order of things, confused.

Posted by: Brent Emery Pieczynski | October 16, 2008 at 12:19

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