"If you have a bazooka in your pocket and people know it, you probably won't have to use it.''

Henry Paulson, U.S Treasury Secretary

... but you didn't count in the factor of people being armed with AK-47s, did you?

divest - to sell

"He who hesitates, masturbates!"
-Jim Carrey, in the Cable Guy

"The financial sector needs to shrink; I don't think simply having a couple of medium-sized banks and a couple of small banks going under is going to do the job."
-Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard

chaebol - family-controlled industrial conglomerate in South Korea

subponea - to summon for a court case
proffer - to present for acceptance
dovish - a person who advocates peace
crimp - to bend or fold
asphyxiate - to smother/suffocate

"A Martinsa spokesman in Madrid, who declined to be named because of company policy, wouldn't comment."
-An interesting Bloomberg news quote.

"Like all dollar-traded commodities, oil prices tend to fall when the U.S. currency rises. A stronger U.S. dollar makes oil more expensive for foreign investors."
-Logical. Remember.

construe - to interpret
dubious - doubtful
cognizance - knowledge
deride - to scorn

Now playing: One Republic - Stop and Stare, Album: Dreaming Out Loud

"Life is what happens, while you're busy making your excuses ..."
- Simple Plan - Miss me when I'm gone

caprice - an impulsive change of mind
demur - to disagree
myopic - lack of foresight
divest - to take away from a person
nettlesome - causing irritation
disparage - to speak negatively about someone
repatriate - to return to one's own country
mire - to get stuck in a sticky situation
fungible - ability to interchange
fractious - readily angered
concomitant - accompanying as an natural result of something


"Historically, a market crash has always precipitated from a bubble (pun intended), and the thicker the clouds or the bigger the bubble, the harder it rains. "

"The effects of the tulip craze left the Dutch very hesitant about speculative investments for quite some time. Investors now can know that it is better to stop and smell the flowers than to stake your future upon one. "

"The demand for investments caused IPOs to sprout out of everything, including companies that promised to reclaim sunshine from vegetables and to build floating mansions to extend Britain's landmass."

"Both actions, joining and fleeing, have very little basis in the quality of the news or the quality of the market. Instead, the herd follows the cow that runs the fastest, trampling the market. "

"We learned at least one lesson from all of these crashes: humans may overact frequently with small effects, but computers do it only once in a big way. "

"When stocks are flying through the stratosphere like rockets, it is usually a sign of a bubble."

- Quotes from the article on stock market crashes on investopedia.com

"Synergy Space-Bovubetribucs forges a new frontier in the introduction of organic entities into the ecosystem of the lunar-scape in order to promote greater synergy. This triumphant new paradigm will be enacted through a leveraged advantaged momentum initiator."

- An actual ad-campaign quote of a failed company before the 1987 stock market crash!