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Article: Wall Street's new bull market: jokes. (gallows humor about the stock market crash)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 9, 1987
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Wall Street's new bull market: Jokes
Wall Street has always had more funny money than funny men. Yet, in the two weeks following Black Monday, as the Dow careened down a scarifying herky-jerky course, the aficionados of gallows humor found that their stock, at least, was steadily rising. "I slept like a baby last night,' one financial adviser deadpanned to another. "I woke up every hour and cried.' The jokes, flying almost as thick and fast as stock quotations, were shouted above the din on trading floors and spread coast to coast via computer linkups and the telephone, propelled by a deeply American impulse: When nose to nose with big trauma, it's better to ...