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Why else would you put a bull in front of the stock exchange except as commentary on assholes pitching bull markets? How could you possibly construe this as a c
by taurknaut 2y ago
Why else would you put a bull in front of the stock exchange except as commentary on assholes pitching bull markets? How could you possibly construe this as a coincidence?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> assholes pitching bull markets Totally willing to believe I’m just naive about this; I don’t see what “bull market vs. bear market” has to do with the running of the bulls festival.
- taurknaut 2y agoI imagine the original use of "bull market" was derived from this practice. If this isn't the case i have no clue myself.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoYeah, fair enough. Wikipedia has this, which I hadn’t found before: > The terms come from London's Exchange Alley in the early 18th century, where traders who engaged in naked short selling were called "bear-skin jobbers" because they sold a bear's skin (the shares) before catching the bear. This was simplified to "bears," while traders who bought shares on credit were called "bulls." The latter term might have originated by analogy to bear-baiting and bull-baiting, two animal fighting sports of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_trend
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoI replied to a comment about crypto whale pump and dump schemes in a threat about predicting crowd behaviour in reference to running of the bull festival, which happens to be, at least loosely, couple to the idea of a raging bull. Wall St has a raging bull sculpture. I feel dumber having just written that out. Don't they teach reading comprehension at school any more?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoUnfortunately, I don’t see any words here that describe the relation. I would appreciate if you could point them out to me so I can give my comprehension skills another go.