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Fans
know them as Coxe-isms — each publication is laced
with Donald Coxe's unique take on the English language —
watch for them and report your favorites. We'll post them!
Here are a few apothegms by Donald Coxe, taken from past
Basic Points issues.
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the unjustly-enriched gaggle of sleazebags, book-cookers,
crooks, Shills, Mountebanks, and fast-buck artists who collectively
inflicted history's greatest-ever damage on the capital
markets and on established principles of ethical capitalism.
— Basic Points, September
6, 2002 (the emergence of S&M's)
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Wall
Street and the media keep excreting this financial glup....
— Basic
Points, February 27, 2003
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So
we got $33 oil, a mad Communist dictator doing a Peter Sellers
imitation with nukes, and prospects of a full-blown war....
— Basic Points, January 23,
2003
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The
ethical recession — the worst on record — grinds
on, but it has been identified and is under siege. Those
mutants who multiplied in the slime of their secretions
now find their breeding grounds in Wall Street, Silicon
Valley and Houston under attack.
— Basic Points, March 8, 2002
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As
of last count, eleven Congressional committees are probing
Enron. Such pooled probing passion is probably unprecedented.
— Basic Points, February 8,
2002
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It's
about the classic contrast between rich, immoral businessmen
who cash out in time and defenseless workers who lose their
life savings by believing in their bosses.... its about
crime in the suites.
— Basic Points, February 8,
2002
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...so
Andersen's stumble could be for them the equivalent of a
bleeding bull in the Amazon for a school of piranhas.
— Basic Points, February 8,
2002
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The
synthetic lease, a creature of the 1990s, is a lovely leprechaun
to some, and a dangerous orc to others. The current issue
of Forbes outlines how these half-lease, half-ownership
financial mules have protected the balance sheets of companies....
— Basic Points, February 8,
2002
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