New vocabulary....
Got this from a Phil. newspaper article. Just to loosen up a bit from a world on the brink of financial collapse, thanks to the Wall Street greedy geniuses.
New vocabulary emerging from the current global financial crisis:
CEO — Chief Embezzlement Officer
CFO — Chief Fraud Officer
BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius
BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18-month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry and husband gets no…you know :-p
P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing
BROKER — What my broker has made me
STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell
STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock
STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves
FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected
MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks
CASH FLOW — The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet
YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240/share
WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240/share
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse
PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use
Source: Money Smarts by Salve Duplito. PDI dated 15 Oct. 2008.
These are good, love the broker one..