Enronomics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    creative accounting, or accounting fraud uncountable

    "Alas, we are reduced to desperately seeking Toto, in need of someone to go behind the curtain and tell us that the wizard's name is enronomics."

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"Alas, we are reduced to desperately seeking Toto, in need of someone to go behind the curtain and tell us that the wizard's name is enronomics."

Etymology

Blend of Enron + economics, after Enron, a company that collapsed through accounting fraud.

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creative accounting

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