Market Mavens Gifts

"I'm a local craftsperson - I make money."

'I don't know what happened... my cousin in Southern California became a millionaire with the exact same business!'

"This doesn't have anything to do with the falling price of oil, does it?"

"You can't beat the prices of these big box retailers."

The Cattle show Week.

"Sometimes late at night I'm not sure the leading economic indicators know where they're going."

Anxiety Clinic - Now Treating: Dow 26,000 phobias.

Lady in Card Shop sees Sympathy Cards section with 'Bear Market', 'Falling Dollar' and 'Inflation' categories.

'They're desperate for new investors.'

'I know it's not raining. A lot of my ex-clients have a tendency to spit at me.'

'Please don't be nervous Mr. Bloom. When the small investor is nervous, the federal reserve gets nervous, and congress goes into attack mode.'

Wall Street .

"Are you playing footsie with me?"

"I was going to transmute it into gold, and then I read that the base metal market has made a remarkable recovery!"

The day the stock market went UP.

Cloud Cuckoo Land, Hamburger bar, "I don't like the look of this Charlie"

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

"It's kohlrabi, the next hot vegetable."

'Looks like your cash cow just got diverted to the slaughterhouse.'

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

Guy has framed 'first Yuan'

"Son, you're old enough now for The Talk: everything you need to know about compound interest."

'I think I know what the problem is!'

'We're living in a round hole economy.'

"I'm not happy about what the economists are predicting."

European currency on the edge.

Investments - Founders Bear and Bull.

Slipping and sliding down the slope...

'When investment bankers give parental advice'

'Tech stocks dropped on the finding that technology isn't neccessarily the best solution to everything.'

'This is where I hang out until bullishness makes a comeback.'

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

'well of course I'm giving your portfolio the attention it deserves, I'm even wearing a black armband!'

'Why can't they call it a deer, or a squirrel market?'

'In memory of our beloved Skippy.'