flim-flammery

Was the last flim-flam so outrageous that there was to be a complete cessation of all flim-flammery?

The Power of the First Sentence | Write to Done 2010

I think its the ‘cousin’ of the invisible hand of the market that comes into play at this point — I refer to the mystical rubber-encased index finger of financial flim-flammery.

Think Progress » Sen. Kit Bond Wants To Privatize Medicare With Vouchers 2010

We figured this was a preposterous bit of flim-flammery so we called up Chase.

HUFFPOST HILL - Boehner Plays Down Budget Agreement Eliot Nelson 2011

Part of the [increase in estimated cost of the prescription drug plan from $400 billion to $720 billion] comes from earlier flim-flammery on the part of the Administration & congress, which projected costs from 2004-2013, even though the benefit didn't start until 2006.

Conservatives and the Bush Budget, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

What is needed are lower, flatter tax rates with fewer loopholes, and not more flim-flammery from the president.

The President's Approach to Tax Fairness Is Mistaken 2011

I expect some sort of flim-flammery to be proposed, which means borrowing billions from somewhere without calling it that.

Henry J. Stern: Paterson Channels Polonius: Albany Skirmish Over Borrowing 2010

As much as I've always longed to own a genuine Chico, I suspect flim-flammery as the bicycle pictured is clearly a Ciöcc--which looks like it should be pronounced "Crotch" but which the cycling cognoscenti know is actually pronounced "Cockle."

The Indignity of Winter: Sights Repulsive and Glorious BikeSnobNYC 2010

I expect some sort of flim-flammery to be proposed, which means borrowing billions from somewhere without calling it that.

Henry J. Stern: Paterson Channels Polonius: Albany Skirmish Over Borrowing 2010

Rather than such flim-flammery, the UK needs someone who doesn't mess about with grandstanding speeches and 'strutting the world-stage' nonsense - rather, we need someone who knows how to wield a chainsaw without worrying about the screams of the public-sector zombies he's cutting into.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

These beliefs reflect the mathematical illiteracy that has allowed the press corps to be routinely duped by economic flim-flammery.

Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents 2009