Post columnist Terry Keenan kept Wall Street honest

Every November, she called them turkeys: Business leaders she saw as major screw-ups would be outed on thes꧑e pages in a loud voice and be♔ awarded her annual booby prize.

That voice, sadly, has been silenced.

Terry Keenan, who occupied this space for many years, died on Thursday at 53.

As her edi♓tor for many years I can attest to Terry being a feisty, take-charge journalist who cut straight through corporateও-speak and tough economics jargon.

“Even though her columns were filled with economics, the dismal science, they were notable for wit, candor and common sense,” econ🔜omist David Malpass told me Fridaღy.

In April 2012, when Ben Bernanke’s “green 🐠shoots” were all the rage again,♕ Terry advised readers to get out of the markets. Quickly.

Stocks ꦗsold off a thousand Dow points over the summer and did not recover unt♐il after Labor Day.

Just this Sept. 6, with the Dow in full bull-market gallop, Terry wrote that the “market looks long in the tooth.” Six weeks later it was down 6 pꦏercent.

In May, she wrote about Warren Buffett’s shareholders attending Berkshire’s annual meeting: “Buffettistas flock to Omaha for a good time and a good steak. But look behind the happy talkꦜ, and it’s not hard to see that the commoner’s capitali🦂st has some real concerns.”

Turkey Awards were a hoot.

In 2012, Bill Ackman got a Turkey for trumpeting a new marketing plan from JCPenney, his new activis♈t target. It involved shoppers scanning barcodes with their iPhones. “Note to billionaire,” she wrote: “Not all Penney’s customers have iPhones!” The plan would later fail spectacularly.

It was classic Terry.