Sun-soaked Stock Traders Pillows

'It's a wonder I got him to go on vacation at all!'

Late Stage Capitalism and the Biosphere Engage in Some Meaningful Dialogue...

'Honey, where's my cell phone?'

"I've just barbecued my head again."

"Hello, son. I suppose chicken farming doesn't seem so bad now."

"My tariffs will move the world in a new direction!!"

"Until we get a bigger chart, we're estimating it's now about up to here."

I was trying to day trade my way through business school, but then the stock market tanked.

'Don't tell me how much you love me. Tell me how my stock is going.'

US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

Chinese stock market

'Superstock'

Hedge Fund: Our 'Swaps' which mimic stocks, were voted #1 derivative of the year!

'These latest figure are encouraging...'

'Now let's proceed downstairs and see where our stock shares presently sits,'

'This app is linked to my financial advisor and provides simulated hand holding when the market is down.'

"I feel I'm doing fine. My sense of net worth is way up this quarter."

'Daddy is going off to stimulate the economy by making gobs of money.'

Out of control

'Basically it's a stock that if a chain of near miraculous events would happen to occur, you'd make a bundle.'

'I'm afraid the stock price gods are not happy Ralph.'

'Some think we economic forecasters speak a lot of Mumbo Jumbo'

'Doesn't bother me. All my money is in carbon-cleanup technologies.'

Shares Nosedive

"I don't know whether to love you or leave you - but then that's the reality of arbitrage."

Pound sign in an hourglass.

'My micro is so good it's beginning to grow into the macro.'

'It's not fair! I wanna save the Earth from asteroids and aliens! All daddy wants to do is sell 1,000 shares of stock!'

"Have you heard something that the rest of us don't know about?"

'Well, okay. So we almost bankrupted the country. But we've managed to make a slight profit thanks to the government bail out package, so who can possibly deny us a fat bonus this year?'

"Goodbye cruel world."

'It's a deal, for $15 an hour, I'll stand in front of your office.'

World Wide Bank: Economic Crisis Bomb

"Investment strategy - fear."

Stock Hurricane Ride