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Just as well he wasn’t a Christian Democrat — a plague of locusts is ''not'' a good sign for people of that disposition. | Just as well he wasn’t a Christian Democrat — a plague of locusts is ''not'' a good sign for people of that disposition. | ||
Trivia point: there is a [[hedge fund]] called [http://www.locustwood.com Locust Wood Capital LLC], which not only tips its hat to Herr Müntefering and his unfortunate [[double entendre]]s, it sounds like it comes out of one of those | Trivia point: there is a [[hedge fund]] called [http://www.locustwood.com Locust Wood Capital LLC], which not only tips its hat to Herr Müntefering and his unfortunate [[double entendre]]s, it sounds like it comes out of one of those [https://www.hedgefundnamegenerator.com/ hedge fund name generator] [[algorithm]]s. | ||
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In the German political vernacular, eine heuschrecke (a “locust”) is a hedge fund, and in particular a private equity firm.
First used by Social Democrat Franz Müntefering when he demanded, as long ago as November 2004, that his party:
- “... must help companies acting in the interest of their future and the future of their employees against irresponsible locust swarms, who measure success in quarterly intervals, suck off[1] substance and let companies die once they have eaten them bare.”
Just as well he wasn’t a Christian Democrat — a plague of locusts is not a good sign for people of that disposition.
Trivia point: there is a hedge fund called Locust Wood Capital LLC, which not only tips its hat to Herr Müntefering and his unfortunate double entendres, it sounds like it comes out of one of those hedge fund name generator algorithms.
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- ↑ I say! Perhaps Herr Müntefering has in mind a special kind of private equity.