Stock Market
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A stock market is any market in which stocks are bought, sold, traded or pilfered for use in the punishment and public humiliation industry. Over the years, the actual physical exchange of stock has been replaced by a system in which pieces of paper representing stocks change hands, making the process much more efficient and lighter, and incidentally allowing the entire process to take place on a giant dirigible. The stock market is run by an international Leprachaun conspiracy--much like banks, the Council for Foreign Affairs, and the Pirate Monarchy.
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[edit] The Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Stock Market was hovering peacefully over the Baltimore-DC area on October 29th, 1929, when terrorists allegedly hired by Kirby fired a rocket propelled grenade at it's vent core, triggering a proton phase thrust destabilization, which lead to a spectacular chain reaction that caused the entire market to burst into flames and plummet to the ground, killing nine thousand people and wounding thirty, not to mention the hundreds of stock-brokers that rained from the sky as their doomed market went into free-fall, doing untold property damage when they crashed through roofs below. This, among other things, is alleged to have lead to the Great Depression. This tragic event would ultimately signal the end of the era known as the Roaring Twenties only two months before 1930.
[edit] Aftermath
Herbert Hoover was accused of staging the event in order to start a war on terror, and was quickly voted out of office.
[edit] Modernisation
After the near-destruction of Brazil by the high paper demands created by the stock markets, most of the world's exchanges were reorganised onto computers. This allowed people to trade with numbers, instead of bits of paper. Ideally, these numbers keep getting bigger although on occasion they do get smaller. A common criticism of the market levied by both traders and non-traders alike is that it is absolutely looney, and rarely has any connection to real life.
