words, words, words
"from Wasilla to Wall Street"
- new turn on "From Main Street to Wall Street"
This phrase was first spotted in the 27 July 2009 issue of Time Magazine. The author of the Briefing column is Justin Fox.
"After Goldman [Sachs] reported the news [of their recent profits] on July 14, everyone from Wall Street to Wasilla struggled with a basic question: Should we be happy about this or not?"
Wasilla is the town of which Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was mayor.
trustafarian, also known as a trust-funder
A trustafarian is an individual who relies financially on a trust fund that was set up by more economically sufficient persons, usually by wealthy parents.
Many young people in New York City who work as interns at magazines and modeling agencies are trustafarians.
Cow-pooling (derived from car-pooling), sometimes spelled without a hyphen as in cowpooling
To cow-pool is to team up with friends, neighbors or even strangers to buy a side of beef or a whole cow directly from a local farm.
People usually participate in cowpooling in order to be able to afford grass-fed beef.
Sobornost. Cyrillic: Соборность
Russian word meaning "spiritual community of many jointly living people"
Sobornost is also the name of a theological journal published by the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius.
A sobor is a council of bishops together with other clerical and lay delegates representing the church as a whole in matters of importance.
Machtpolitik
= power politics
Machtpolitik
doctrine in political theory advocating the use of power and especially of physical force by a political state in the attainment of its objectives.