"Your steered the proper course, Cap'n, when you had us bury this instead of investing it in the market!"
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pirate, pirates, treasure, treasures, buried treasure, burying treasure, money under the mattress, invest, investing, investment, investments, good investment, bad investment, good investments, bad investment, financial advice, good financial advice, bad financial advice, stock markets, market, market crash, stock market crash, crash, credit crunch, global financial crisis, financial crisis, financial crash, captain, pirate captain, pirate captains"Relax. Even in a recession, people need rare tropical fighting fish."
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recession, the recession, financial crash, the financial crash, economic crash, the economic crash, stock market crash, the stock market crash, aquarium, aquariums, tropical fish, rare tropical fish, fish shop, pet, pets, pet fish, essential, essentials, optimistic, optimism, false hopes, fighting fish, false hope"Unfortunately, my holding on to tech-stocks was faith-based."
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stocks, stocks and shares, stock market, stockholder, stockholders, lose, losing everything, loss, financial loss, crash, stock crash, financial crash, faith, faith-based, misplaced faith, ill-informed, faith-based education, uninformed, misinformation, ignorant, ignorance, trust, misplaced trust, trusting, trusted, education, education system"Start the economy."
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king, kings, royal, royals, royalty, the economy, failing economy, recession, the recession, economic crash, servant, servants, economist, economists, high expectations, over simplification, order, orders, financial crash, jump start, jump starts, jump starting the economy, politician, politicians, rruler, rulers, capitalism, disaster capitalism"Hello, son. I suppose chicken farming doesn't seem so bad now."
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west, western, wild west, wildwest, hillbilly, hillbillies, shack, shacks, farm, farms, farmer, farmers, farming, ranch, ranches, cattle ranches, cattle ranch, chicken, chickens, hen, hens, poultry, chicken farming, agriculture, agribusiness, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, father, fathers, son, sons, child, children, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, businesspeople, business executive, chicken farmers, business man, business men, business people, business person, executive, ceo, depression, economic depression, financial crash, crash, crashes, financial crashes, crisis, economic crisis, financial crisis, city, cities, city worker, big city, the big city, debt, in debt, city workers, hot shot, hot shots, farm house, farm house, traders, trading, trader, stock market, stock market trader"C'mon sweetie—you're only as bankrupt as you feel."
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banker, bankers, banking, executive, executives, business executive, business executives, manager, managers, business manager, business managers, support, supporting, supportive, recession, stock market, stock market crash, economic crash, financial crash, double dip recession, bankrupt, bankruptcy, debt, in debt, spousal support"Would you like to hear about our retirement plan?"
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, interview, interviews, interview skills, employment, employ, employed, unemployed, salary, pay cut, cut, cuts, budget cut, budget cuts, undervalued, undersold, undersell, financial crash, negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, contract, contract dispute, contracts, benefit, benefits, cryo, cryofreeze, retirement, retirement plan, retirement plans, human resources"Remember the good old days when all the economy needed was a little fine-tuning?"
Graph shaped like stairs.
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business man, business men, businessman, graph, graphs, chart, charts, profit and loss, stairs, stairway, stairways, business men, business person, business people, businessperson, failing business, failing businesses, profit and loss statement, downward trend, downward trends, recession, the recessions, financial crash, the financial crash, bad business"In my day, there was no reward for incompetence."
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banker, bankers, banking, stock market, stock markets, stocks and shares, stock market crash, financial crash, economic crash, recession, banking crisis, beggar, beggars, panhandler, panhandlers, incompetent, incompetence, reward, rewards, bonus, bonuses, bankers bonuses, big bonus, big bonuses, banking panic, banking panics, bank run, bank runsHumpty Dumpty sat on a Wall Street
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humpty dumpty, nursery rhyme, nursery rhymes, wall street, investor, investors, investing, banker, bankers, investment banker, investment bankers, investment banking, stocks and shares, stock market, the stock market, financial crash, the financial crash, recession, the recession, doomed, economic crash, the economic crash, omen, omens, dark omen, dark omens, warning, warnings, warning sign, warning signs, volatile market, volatile markets, risk, risks, financial risk, financial risks"When I was a child, I lost childish amounts of money, but when I became a man I put away childish losses and started losing man-sized amounts of money."
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childish, childishness, immature, immaturity, grow up, growing up, loss, losses, making a loss, making losses, office worker, office workers, manhood, becoming a man, money, monetary, stocks and shares, stock market crash, crash, crashes, economic crash, financial crash, financial crisis, debt, in debt, pocket money, child, kid, kids, childhood, bible, bible quote, bible quotes, corinthians, christian, christians, christianity, the bible, recession"Put in something about the stock market."
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grace, saying grace, prayer, prayers, praying, stock market, the stock market, stocks and shares, stock market crash, the stack market crash, economic crash, financial crash, recession, the recession, investor, investors, investing, investments, investments, share owner, share owners, rich person, rich people, the one percent, the 1 percent, wealth divide, wealth gap, priorities, bad priorities, wrong priorities, personal welath"Would you please elaborate on 'the something bad happened'?"
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business man, business men, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, accountant, accountants, going under, failed business, failing business, failing businesses, incompetent, incompetence, recession, the recessions, financial crash, the financial crash, economic crash, the economic crash, meeting, meetings, board meeting, board meeting, presentation, presentations, vague"I'm afraid you're a bit too high-minded for us, Rawson. Do you think you could see your way clear to resigning in disgust?"
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, interview, interviews, interview skills, employment, employ, employed, unemployed, salary, pay cut, cut, cuts, budget cut, budget cuts, undervalued, undersold, undersell, financial crash, negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, contract, contract dispute, contracts, resign, resignation, forced resignation, high-minded, excuses, excuse"It's nothing personal—the way things are going, we just don't need as many abductees."
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redundant, made redundant, redundancy, redundancies, lay off, lay offs, laid off, lay-off, lay-offs, unemployed, unemployment, streamline, streamlining, alien, aliens, martian, martians, extraterrestrials, extraterrestrials, alien abduction, alien abductions, recession, financial crash, space ship, spaceship, space ships, space ships, alien spaceship, alien spaceships, office worker, office workers, alien abductee, alien abductees"So, we look to the fourth quarter as a time of healing."
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business meeting, business meetings, board meeting, baord meetings, meeting, meetings, failed business, failing business, recession, the recession, economic crisis, financial crisis, financial crash, accounting, accountant, accountants, going under, company loss, company, losses, chart, chart, graph, graphs, recovering, recovery, time of healing, damage limitation, positive spin, positive spins"Relax—we'd know."
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banker, bankers, banking, recession, the recession, recessions, economic crash, stock market, stock markets, stock market crash, stock market crashes, double dip recession, banking crisis, doom, doomsayer, the apocalypse, the end of days, doomsday, politician, politicians, sandwich board, sandwich boards, finance, financial crash, financial crashes, hierarchy, hierarchies, pretension, pretentious, pretentiousness, conceit, conceited, big head, big headedWall Street Down
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wall street, finance, financial crash, financial crashes, stock market, stock markets, stock market crash, stock market crashes, recession, the recession, recessions, double-dip recession, double dip recession, stock exchange, stock exchange, the new york stock exchange, the new york stock exchange, shares, share, failing, failure, stats, statistics, occupy wall street, drain, drains, down the drain, failure, breakdown, breakdowns, collapse, collapses, decline, declines"Making money's eve more of a kick when no one else is."
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management, upper management, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives, board, boardroom, chief exec, chief executive, chief executives, board member, class, working class, class issues, class divide, class struggle, class struggles, political issue, political issues, tax, taxes, financial crash, stock market crash, market crash, recession, depression, economic depression, economic downturn, fat cat, fat catsDr. Manette Sinks In His Daughter's Arms As She Tells Him The Sad News
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bookworm, book worm, bookworms, book worm, book, books, novel, novels, library, librarians, librarian, book lover, book lovers, literature, literary, lit, lit major, read, reading, avid reader, readers, reader, novel, novels, classics, classical literature, english literature, dickens, charles dickens, parallel, parallels, spoof, spoofed, spin-off, spin off, bank, banks, economy, economic, economic crash, market crash, financial crash, bad news, money, bank, banks, banking, bail outs, bailout"I see your consumer confidence remains undeterred."
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couple, couples, husband and wife, husbands and wives, marriages, gender issues, shopping, consumer, consumers, consumerism, consumer confidence, shopaholic, shopaholics, overspend, overspending, compulsive shopper, compulsive shoppers, spending money, budgeting, spendthrift, spendthrifts, bad relationship, bad relationships, marital fight, marital fights, domestic, domestics, domestic argument, domestic arguments, recession, the recession, financial crash, the financial crash"Jim, say hi to Tom, our severance consultant."
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businessman, businessmen, exec, execs, executive, executives, career, careers, big business, corporate, corporation, corporations, day job, offices, office job, office drone, office drones, cubicles, cubicle, offices, office building, office ecology, office politics, modern life, modern world, working life, working world, desk job, desk jockey, redundancy, redundant, lay off, lay offs, lay-off, lay-offs, laid off, fired, financial crash, severance, severance consultant, severed, bearer of bad news, warning, warning sign, warnings, warning signs, red flag, red flags, bad omen, omen, omens"There's a thin line, J.B., between deniability and pig ignorant."
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