What is "easy money"

n. 1 (context informal English) Money easily acquired. 2 (context economics English) A monetary policy that makes money, credit, or both readily available to some borrowers.

1. n. income obtained with a minimum of effort [syn: gravy train]

2. the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure [ant: tight money]

Easy Money is a 1983 American comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candice Azzara, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It was directed by James Signorelli and written by Dangerfield, Michael Endler, P. J. O'Rourke and Dennis Blair. The original music score was composed by Laurence Rosenthal. The theme song "Easy Money" is performed by Billy Joel and was featured on his album An Innocent Man.

Easy Money was a board game introduced by Milton Bradley Company in 1935. The game is based on The Landlord's Game as is Monopoly in the movement of pieces around the board, the use of cards, properties that can be purchased, and houses that can be erected on them.

Easy Money, a satirical 1948 British film about one of the most beloved traditions of the English middle class, the football pool, is composed of four tales about the effect a major win has on four different groups in the postwar period. Written by Muriel and Sydney Box and directed by Bernard Knowles, it was released by Gainsborough Pictures.

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Easy Money is a comedy- drama television series that aired on The CW from October 5, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The series was created by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider. The show—along with Valentine, Surviving Suburbia, and In Harm's Way—are shows programmed by Media Rights Capital (MRC), an independent producer of television programming. The Sunday night block (5pm–10pm) was sold to the producers on a leased-time basis from The CW after the network had no ratings success with the night.

Production of the series was put on hold in mid-October and was expected to resume within four to six weeks. Two weeks later, MRC decided to cancel both Easy Money and Valentine. On November 20, 2008, The CW announced that it was ending its Sunday Night agreement with MRC, removing the current shows and programming the night itself. On July 6, 2009, The CW announced that beginning July 26, the series would begin burning off the remaining episodes Sundays at 7 p.m.

Easy Money or Snabba cash is a novel from 2006 by Jens Lapidus. It has been a success in term of sales, and the paperback was the fourth best seller of Swedish novels in 2007.

Easy Money is the nineteenth studio album of country music artist John Anderson. It was released in 2007 under the Warner Bros. Records label. The album produced the singles: "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" (previously a single in 2002 for Aaron Tippin from his album Stars & Stripes) and "A Woman Knows".

Easy Money peaked at 36 for country albums and reached 170 on the United States Billboard 200. Allmusic stated that Anderson pulled the album off "with ease" and that most of the album "feels natural and unforced." The reviewer stated that Anderson "hasn't made a record this good in years...at least [since] the early '90s, possibly the early '80s." The album was produced by John Rich of the duo Big & Rich.

Easy Money is a 1925 silent film directed by Al Rogell and starring Cullen Landis and Mildred Harris.

A copy of the film is preserved at the Library of Congress.

"Easy Money" is a song by English musician Johnny Marr. It was as the lead single from his second studio album Playland on 10 June 2014 as a 7" vinyl and on 16 August as a digital download. The official music video for the song was uploaded to Marr's official YouTube channel on 15 August. The song peaked at number 94 on the Belgian Flanders Tip singles chart.

Easy Money is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Redd Davis and starring Lilian Oldland, Gerald Rawlinson and George Carney. It was a quota quickie made at Elstree Studios.

Easy Money is a 1936 American crime film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker and Noel Madison.

Easy Money is a Swedish thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa that was released on 15 January 2010. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Jens Lapidus. Joel Kinnaman stars in the lead role of Johan "JW" Westlund, a rather poor man living a double life in the upper class areas of Stockholm. After meeting a wealthy girl, he is enticed into the world of organized crime and begins to sell cocaine to afford his expensive lifestyle. Easy Money was well received by critics and was a hit at the box office.

Two sequels to the film have been filmed - the first (Snabba Cash II) was released in 2012, while the third premiered in Swedish cinemas October 2013. Warner Bros. holds the rights to an American remake of Easy Money, which is set to star Zac Efron.