| 单词 | bankers' ramp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbankers' ramp bankers' ramp n. (also banker's ramp) British colloquial a financial crisis perceived to have been engineered by bankers for political or financial ends; a conspiracy by bankers to engineer such a crisis; cf. ramp n.8Originally with reference to the financial crisis in Britain in August 1931 which led to a split within the Labour government and the creation of a National Government. The crisis was perceived by some Labour cabinet ministers as having been deliberately engineered by the Bank of England and other banks with the aim of forcing a reduction in public spending. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > economic forces or effects overheating1609 consumption1662 supply1744 production1767 demand1776 effective demand1819 employment rate1833 equilibrium1871 opportunity cost1894 bankers' ramp1931 multiplier1936 multiplier effect1937 market forces1942 cost push1952 externality1957 fiscal drag1964 demand-side1975 1931 J. R. MacDonald in Times 26 Aug. 12/3 We are told that this is a bankers' ‘ramp’, or a conspiracy, or something of the kind, against a Labour Government. 1976 Ld. Robbins Against Inflation (1979) xx. 98 What I hope your Lordships will agree is a pure fallacy; namely, the suggestion that what has happened recently is all a pure conspiracy, a banker's ramp and so on. 1995 Jrnl. Post Keynesian Econ. 18 251 Bank of England officials participated to an unprecedented degree in Cabinet and inter-party deliberations, thereby inviting the charge of forcing a ‘Banker's Ramp’. 2011 Observer (Nexis) 8 May 42 This continuing financial crisis is largely a consequence of all that fashionable deregulation that began in the 1980s. Yet the bankers are fighting re-regulation tooth and nail. Talk about a bankers' ramp. < as lemmas |
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