Termenul de bankster (banker + gangster) revine

Americanismul anilor 1930, bankster este o imbinare a cuvintelor bank şi gangster (banca si gangster). În 1991, the Washington Post scrie “A term whose revival is long overdue, coined by Time in the 1930s for the agents whose scheming precipitated a string of bank collapses at the dawn of the Depression.”

Cu unsprezece ani in urma, in ianuarie 1998, acelasi ziar mentiona, “With all the high risk and the fast money being made on Wall Street, it is not surprising that the word bankster has begun to creep into the language.”

Cea mai recenta aparitie a termenului este in Black Agenda Report of New Jersey, din 4 februarie: “In the process of attempting to breathe life into the bankster zombies, Obama and his bipartisan buddies will exhaust the capacity of the federal government to make money out of nothing.”