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[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Any people with an understanding of economics that can explain to me why a bear market really is the correct term?

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Market is down: bear/bare market

Market is up: bull market.

It's just the name we use to describe market conditions

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

I always think about it like this, bear swipes the bottom out from under the market and a bill pushes it up.

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

This sounds like these shouldn't be the actual scientific terms for that lol

[-] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Stocks are not science, it's all a fugazi.

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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?

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Nope? Sounds like an element.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That one I got, but thanks nonetheless. There are probably other out there wondering what bears & twinks are.

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Woosh. This is about what economics and gay subculture.

[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Double-woosh? I got that part. I was just interested in the term "bear market" being an accurate description.

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