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CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer.
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BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
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1 |- v& z& _! Z7 _8 y) i3 j' u7 i! t4 [VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
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( ^( X/ D7 R1 t/ B$ ^) `- y2 l, rP/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing. 3 I F: ~% C" Q' C( e
2 i" P% L& p% [+ ^; p; HBROKER -- What my broker has made me. / A& o( z# c( S* A. q/ j7 n
& ]3 f: M) p! `8 h3 fSTANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell. ) k) ` D' L8 d; T7 o
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STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.2 O: C# J! c8 I- P. b
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STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves. 0 f5 E8 u4 s* Q; W( G H, s
8 O7 G$ s: v' i. Q& G$ OFINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected. B+ W! h) A* r( ~0 P6 ~
# Q- c. e# {2 T9 V; m+ f/ L9 sMARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
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% S6 H: A' K$ U9 r2 yCASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet. ) B4 a3 O; @0 i d9 T; F
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YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
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4 s1 `3 g6 v( m6 |3 M6 I* y6 LWINDOWS 2000 -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
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INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
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7 S1 j N2 ], B* D% WPROFIT -- an archaic word no longer in use.
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If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.
( N h1 R( L5 F# a: KWith Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.2 g0 ~7 p. e! ]) L
With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.3 _$ V$ W: u. i- }) h0 @
But, 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.
* g& N4 V) {1 u; h8 y# r4 ?Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
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; f3 C8 k4 n( H7 g! XWhat is the difference between a Wall Street Stockbroker and a pigeon?
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2 x8 |7 b! r/ K5 S A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
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Politicians and diapers have one thing in common...
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...they should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. |
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