where does the Bear wait while the Bull finishes his time on stage?

Where does the Bear wait while the bull finishes his time on stage?

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

By this point in the cycle the Bull in Bull Market has gotten down right predictable. He is social and suave now and wealthy folks invite him to their parties and ordinary folks let him sit in their living room and ask him questions about their 401K's.

When the Bull in Bull Market is taken for granted it's time to wonder about his cousin the Bear who has disappeared altogether; living in a rented room month to month down at the YMCA nearly forgotten. Perhaps the Bear has developed a drinking problem, sleeping till noon, and not interfering in business and commerce at all.

Sometimes it's foreign interests that bring the Bear back to Center stage. Like the German's in 1917 in world war one buying Lenin the Red agitator a third class ticket to Moscow on the Greyhound bus, the Bear is coming to disrupt the lives of rich and poor alike.

Sometimes the Bear is summoned by Bankers fooling around with interest rates or by do-gooders wanting to pay the unskilled workers fifteen dollars and hour for an honest days work at fast food restaurants.

The Bull in bull Market and the Bear in new Bear market don't say much to each other when they change places and most people don't even know that anything is different.

If you are  lucky you will see the Bull standing in a long dark tunnel at a football or baseball game smoking a cigarette reading the racing forum, and you will realize that he no longer works on the financial channel; sitting as the silent honored guest dressed in an expensive suit and wearing a fresh flower in his lapel nodding wisely during discussions about the price of gold, levels of interest rates or sinking commodity prices.

As for the Bear in New Bear Market he comes charging straight at you head up, powerful of shoulders and roaring as he tears and shreds apart the lives of just about everybody everywhere. Not every Bear is destined to be remembered but he sure starts off that way.

Later, after your portfolio is decimated and your dreams of European vacations dashed you try to remember why you once tipped pretty waitresses five dollars to bring you cold coffee in a café while you read your Wall Street Journal everyday looking for secret patterns in the price changes of Beef futures each morning.
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Historical note- Lenin actually took a train to Moscow that time in 1917