Bear is also a term used for “a husky and hairy man”, or the opposite of a twink.
But the joke doesn’t really work: just because the value of one commodity goes down (twinks in this case), it doesn’t mean the market is bear (in economic terms), but it may mean that the value of bears (in sex preference terms) is going up.
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Any people with an understanding of economics that can explain to me why a bear market really is the correct term?
Market is down: bear/bare market
Market is up: bull market.
It's just the name we use to describe market conditions
Thank you!
When graph goes down, it looks kind of like a grizzly bear from the side profile, when graoh goes up, it looks like big bulls horns
Bear market is when the market has traditionally been (for the duration of the observers data) in a downtrend and a bull market is the opposite.
I always think about it like this, bear swipes the bottom out from under the market and a bill pushes it up.
This sounds like these shouldn't be the actual scientific terms for that lol
This is the best I can do for a picture, but yeah, things are named fun things all the time. Have you ever heard of Francium?
Nope? Sounds like an element.
Bear is also a term used for “a husky and hairy man”, or the opposite of a twink.
But the joke doesn’t really work: just because the value of one commodity goes down (twinks in this case), it doesn’t mean the market is bear (in economic terms), but it may mean that the value of bears (in sex preference terms) is going up.
That one I got, but thanks nonetheless. There are probably other out there wondering what bears & twinks are.
Woosh. This is about what economics and gay subculture.
Double-woosh? I got that part. I was just interested in the term "bear market" being an accurate description.