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CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer. 0 u" l: y/ b0 L C7 @
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer. 0 c4 P. E4 s# E5 y6 k# w/ I7 ]
4 Q" h: N: B4 G8 i: X3 `9 H$ SBULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
" O/ w0 R! G8 b+ `- V% t3 s% b, kBEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex. N* }: l8 H% u8 d! Q1 b5 R( Y$ ]6 J: Z w
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VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
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P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing. $ @+ c( m5 S! s( t, d/ }
! B; p7 s( |, M8 ^& Q9 MBROKER -- What my broker has made me.
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5 M y0 |: X# R: V; L8 n0 VSTANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
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STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock., \9 L& G s5 e
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STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves. 9 f5 i6 G* P# R* U
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FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected. 5 `# I" e+ z0 A! r
; S- ~8 `. V( }, s8 c" GMARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks. + H) W% ]1 l* h' I
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CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
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5 E0 b0 b( d8 F7 e3 JYAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
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WINDOWS 2000 -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.2 } r6 S% a- ~6 F! X- ~3 S
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INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
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4 o( K- g1 f' w7 f% N9 b% ~PROFIT -- an archaic word no longer in use.
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6 H% M0 p" v) A$ ~& [9 ?If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.) y: G: \; O" p1 W
With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.5 X* l$ I! J P. i
With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.
2 T! e1 f; |' j1 FBut, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash.
/ d8 |* K0 @( G6 bBased on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
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3 E7 l# Y5 B" y: `1 N5 y. PWhat is the difference between a Wall Street Stockbroker and a pigeon?
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% M- @% x5 E/ ^ A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
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Politicians and diapers have one thing in common... t# P9 S& h# K% t& Z3 M y/ a" C
. c z& ?% o% u, p* S( t1 \, R ...they should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. |
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