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more about #traders more comments → BigRiver: More Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: "America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. T... more » bigduke: So let me get this straight, We pay off the billionaires who bankrolled all of these bad loans to begin with, yep no problem whatsoever. But those sam... more » lawyergay: The people whose bad decisions we should really be pissed off about are the brokers who wrote mortgages for unqualified borrowers that they didn't ha... more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Fuck Santelli. He's cute, but he's a shill. He's part of the problem. So is the comma splice. more » NoWireHangers: People can rage all they want about this whole situation being "communist" and "unfair" but Life isn't fair, it never has been, and it never will be. ... more » Dave J.: Someone needs to edumacate these traders on what happens to the value of your house when a bunch of similar houses on the same block are being sold by... more » dado: My concern is that the 52 million people who didn't vote for Obama become so outraged at his policies that the effectively neuter him during the 2010 ... more » belltolls: I would love to drive a '54 Chevy. more » TheHonJudgeSmails: Honestly, I for one am pretty pissed to be paying for other people's bad decisions -- both the banks' and the homebuyers'. So it's kind of populist, ... more » Private Hangnail: I'm outraged as well. Outraged at myself that I didn't get in on the sub-prime mortgage action when the getting was good. Stupid, stupid, stupid me wi... more » null: If you google the word "gladsome," this story is the first hit that's not a result from a dictionary. more » Rumpelstilskin: I work at a museum, we had two end-of-the-year-gifts, two (when rich people talk to their accountant and realize they need to give something at the en... more » lobstr: That's a long-ass song. Meanwhile, during the chorus, distracted traders failed to notice Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice futures contracts plummeted... more » Smitros: I wonder what people are singing in their respective places of unemployment. more » -
#outrage
Drudge Report Showcases the Least Sympathetic Populist Rage Ever
Rick Santelli and a bunch of traders are furious! They are outraged at Barack Obama's crazy mortgage plan which will maybe stave off a couple foreclosures. [Update: New video with the best of Rick's rage!] More » -
#clips
CNN Captures Forlorn Traders in Rare Gladsome Mood
Every year on Christmas Eve, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange stop their trading to sing "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." It's extra poignant this year, see? -
#photogallery
The Best Of Sad Floor Traders
No doubt these are sad times. The economy is crashing and burning in a terrific, America-changing (oh and probably the rest of the world too) flameout. No image—not a hobo running for a boxcar, not a Dorothea Lange migrant mother pensively contemplating the fate of all things—captures the ruinous emotions of the past several weeks than sad stock market floor traders. Yes those poor suited men and women who clutch their faces in utter shock and disbelief, flashes of years spent (and maybe wasted) trudging through business school running through their minds as the numbers plunge and plunge. We've a chief compiler of these images in Sad Guys On Trading Floors, a Tumblr blog of woe and despair. After the jump we've put together a gallery of our favorite devastating photos. Poor guys. All images from Sad Guys On Trading Floors, and there are lots more on that site. And Men.style.com has a gallery too. Wait, what's lower than zero? Huh. Gum. On the ceiling. Well, there goes state school for Jimmy. If I hold my mouth shut, maybe the money won't come out. We spent how much on Cristal last month? Omigod I think I'm gay. And broke. Definitely broke. Fuck it! Son of a bull bear. I wonder if they sell Dubai flag shirts. On top of all this a tick bite? The last aria in Aida. No dentist now... So... very... tired How much do guns cost? Carry the one...and...yup. Yup. I'm fucked. I'm from Belgium. Where's my contact lens? And all my money? Walnuts. I too am from Belgium. Look! Look! A plus sign! Oh, wait no. Nope. Just a bug. I should not have had that tuna nicoise. Hi mom? Can you get your exercise stuff out of my old room?
