BUSINESS LEXICON

• Tapering - It is the process of reducing the pace of purchasing assets with money created out of thin air.

• Squeeze - To be strict about the monies and limit how much is available to a Company or an Organisation. 

• Boil the Ocean - To undertake an impossible task or project or to make a task or project unnecessarily difficult. Boiling the Ocean generally means to go overboard.

• Dead Cat Bounce - A temporary recovery from a prolonged decline or bear market, followed by the continuation of the downtrend. A Dead Cat Bounce is a small, short-lived recovery in the Price of a Security, such as a Stock.

• Bleeding Edge - It is a category of technologies incorporating those so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expenses in order to make use of them.

• Open the Kimono - To reveal what is being planned or to share important information freely.  Similar to "open the books" or an "open door policy", Opening the Kimono means Revealing the inner workings of a Project or Company to an outside Party. 

• Big Uglies - They are the stocks that provide solid, long term earnings, growth and Dividends like old Industrial Companies in gritty Industries (such as mining, steel and oil) and as a result, they tend to be unpopular stocks with Investors looking for bargain priced stocks.