Margin Maverick Mugs

"He writes all the time - OK, so it's mostly in the margins of library books. . ."

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

It's okay Mom! As a broker, I'm under supervision of the SEC!

"Well, it's unanimous. Instead of going out of business quietly, with dignity and grace, we've decided to end things killer asteroid-style, taking as many of our competitors with us as possible!"

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

We need to put more money into Lithuanian sardine futures...I think that warrants bonuses all around!

Dow Jones drop

"Apparently over 50% of people never look at their pension plans!"

His temperature appears to rise and fall with the FT index

'The market shifted on me.'

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

'Clem,the doctor told you to get away and relax.'

'Frank is into D.I.Y...'Destroy It Yourself'!'

"Which way up do you want it?"

The Contrarian funds

The two faces of capitalism.

(Stocks) (Bonds) (Off Wall St.)

"Looks like the high tech shares have taken another fall."

Got out of the market too soon; got back in too late.

'The Karma of the marketplace is about to overwhelm the Dogma of policy making,'

"Today on Wall Street, yesterday's panic selling was replaced by panic buying."

'While your word is your bond, at this point it's a junk bond.'

"What do you mean, the market rallied?"

"I invested in Chinese stocks just because of my ironic sense of humor - if it goes wrong, I can't even afford a bowl of Chop Suey!"

10 Days Without an Interest Rate Change

'Uh-oh.'

Freddie Mac and Fannie May takeover

'After only a few years in the market I had a small fortune - unfortunately I'd started out with a big one.'

Now before I give you my report, I want you all to remember the word 'cycle'.

Seats on the Stock Exhange are now equppied with air bags

Bank Stress Test

Wall Street: Panic, don't panic

'This morning a rumor that we would buy the Arpex Corp drove our stock up $3. Around noon a rumor that Arpex would buy us drove it up another $3. And in the afternoon a rumor that wo have nothing to do with Arpex drove it up $3 more.'

'I handle commodities and Dietrich here specialises in stocks and bonds.'

The Day Trader