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Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1895-1977), the "Vermont ruminator," was a stock market contrarian, as expressed in his book, The Art of Contrary Thinking (1954). He wrote: "The public is…
Sweet potato fries (or "sweet potato french fries") became popular in American restaurants from the 1980s. The fries are prepared like french fries, and both are sometimes combined as…
New York City baseball player and manager Yogi Berra (1925-2015) is known for his malapropisms. "Even Napoleon had his Watergate" ("Watergate" is a mistake for…
A "wire house" (or "wirehouse") is a brokerage house that has a communication network; originally, a "wire house" meant a brokerage house with a telegraph line or a…
Entry in progress -- B.P. The Financial Services Roundtable has been called a TBTF lobbying group or the "TBTF Consortium." Similar phrases include "too big to jail," "too…
Sometimes the stock market can rally on bad financial news. There could be several reasons for this. The first reason is that the stock market might have discounted the bad news in advance as…
Gray's Papaya began in 1973 at Broadway and West 72nd Street, offering hot dogs and papaya juice just like the older Papaya King. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, Gray's began offering a…
An old Wall Street saying is: "It's not a stock market, but a market of stocks." This means that it's not important if the stock market (such as the Dow Jones Industrial…
The lunch wagon (often called the "night lunch wagon" or "night owl" or "owl" because of the night hours of the business) is first cited in a Worcester (MA) newspaper…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Hawaiian pizzaHawaiian pizza is a pizza which usually consists of a cheese and tomato base with pieces of ham and pineapple. Some versions include bacon,…
"Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster" is an old reminder that success can be fleeting. A rooster replaces the peacock in some versions of the saying. "Peacock Today,…
In the first half of the 20th century, many Jewish people escaped crowded Manhattan and took the newly built subway line to homes in the borough of the Bronx (often along its popular street, the…
The "Texas Roll" sushi roll is offered at several Japanese restaurants, but the ingredients do not appear to have been standardized. Jalapeños are often included. Sushi Zushi (Dallas…
"No bowl of borscht" appears to possibly have been a short-lived New York City variant of "not chopped liver." A Southern variation of the same idea would be to compare…
"To err is human; to forgive, divine" is a famous quotation from the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). "To err is human; to hedge (is) divine" (or, "To speculate is…
"A stock doesn't know you own it" is a proverb that's been used by financial writer "Adam Smith" (George Goodman) in the 1960s and also investor Warren Buffett. The…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Halloween indicatorThe Halloween indicator is a theory that the period from November to April inclusive has significantly stronger stock market growth on…
"Speculate to accumulate" (that is, "take chances to win big") appears to have started in gambling and was cited by Broadway scribe Walter Winchell by 1941. The phrase is more…
The "Twinkie" cake was invented in the 1930s in the Midwest, but the deep-fried Twinkie was invented in Brooklyn. Christopher Sell (originally from England) opened a Brooklyn fish &…
Texas Tech University began a campaign featuring the slogan "From here, it's possible" in 2006. The slogan highlights the university's many degree programs where students can…