econobonics

Meaningless gibberish about economics meant to make an ignorant writer sound authoritative.

...in the comments there was some minor quibbling and tut-tutting and a healthy-heapin’ handful of econobonics words like “predictive,” “multi-causal,” “independent predictor,” “differing methodologies,” and “intervening assumptions” ...

(from tbogg at firedoglake dot com, 2010-07-27, "Quivering-with-antici-pation")