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Pastimes : Prophecy -- HYPE or HOPE?

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To: SOROS who started this subject11/26/2003 12:27:10 PM
From: Sidney Reilly  Read Replies (1) of 5569
 
Twenty-First Century Financial Terms:

CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer

CFO – Corporate Fraud Officer

MBA – Master of Bogus Accounting

BULL MARKET – A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET – An extended period when kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING – The art of buying low, and selling lower.

P/E RATIO – The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market goes lower.

BROKER – What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POORS – My life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST – The idiot who just downgraded my stock.

STOCK SPLIT – When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets between them.

FINANCIAL PLANNER – A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION – The day after I buy stocks.

CASH FLOW – The movement my money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO – What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker.

WINDOWS – What you jump out of when you are the poor sucker above.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR – Last year's investor who is now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT – An archaic word, no longer in use.

401K – Now known as only a 201k.
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