Fanron
n.— «It is with no overt sense of hyperbole or irony that Bill Fleckenstein from Fleckenstein Capital has taken to calling Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) “Fanron.”» —“Fannie’s Sweater Has a Loose Thread” by Bill Mann Motley Fool (U.K.) Feb. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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