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bull market


Market is going up, like bulls, known for their cheerful, optimistic attitude or their love of going up things, like for instance that well-known trick where you can lead a cow into a school and get it stuck there because cows only go upstairs and not down them.
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bear market


Bear markets go down, like bears, known for their love of steep declines? (Oh gosh, these don’t seem like connected concepts at all, how many more of these do I have?)
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stagflation


When your bachelor party gets out of hand.
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elastic demand


Demand for elastics.
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inelastic demand


Demand inside elastics.
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day trading


When someone says “Can we do this Wednesday instead of Sunday?” and you say “Sure.”
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great depression


Era when there was such good soup everyone formed round-the-block lines for it.
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great recession


Depending on what point you are trying to make, a thing we are either still in and will never emerge from, have been out of for a while or have just barely gotten out of but our recovery is still precarious.
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recovery


Thing that is always fragile, like an egg, or precarious, like greeting somebody that you have only met a single time by a name you are 90 percent on.
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trading floor


As far as I can understand from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the Trading Floor is where you go to get sexually harassed and then yell a lot. This helps your stocks because it is the backbone of how business was once done in America.
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