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Moneygeddon
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English
Etymology
Coined by Danielle Ward and a public-relations think-tank for the first episode of the first series of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, first televised on Wednesday 25 March in 2009 on BBC Four: en money geddon, from en Armageddon the end of the world.Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A 220–225 https://hal-hprints.archives-ouvertes.fr/hprints-01794187/document 978-5-7057-5026-9 2016 Volgograd Uchitel Publishing House Social and Economic Background of Blending https://www.socionauki.ru/upload/socionauki.ru/book/files/globalistics_and_globalization_studies_5_en/220-225.pdf
Pronunciation
mŭ'nēgĕʹdən RP, en /ˌmʌniːˈɡɛdən/
Proper noun
en often humorous neologism The late-2000s world economic recession.
2009: “Graham Thurlwell”, alt.tv.farscape (Google group): Crisis – what crisis?, the 22nd day of May at 9:55pm
Meanwhile, The Minister For Women and Equality is busy banging on about how there aren’t enough women in the City and HMG should force companies to hire more women at the highest level because women wouldn’t have brought about Moneygeddon – no, honest they wouldn’t.
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