{"slug": "the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time", "title": "The Greatest Wall Street Comics of All Time", "summary": "A reader shared a decades-long collection of Wall Street comics with a financial writer, who selected favorites highlighting 1990s tech stocks and Alan Greenspan, the dot-com bubble's brutal aftermath, and the negativity bias in financial media. The collection includes timeless cartoons on market prediction difficulty and bear market humor.", "body_md": "One of my favorite parts about writing over the years is the regular feedback I get from readers.\n\nPeople send me questions, ideas, charts, movie recommendations, books, old magazines and the occasional grammar/spell check.1\n\nA reader recently shared with me that he’s been collecting Wall Street comics for a few decades. He wanted to send me the entire collection, clipped straight from newspapers and financial publications over the years.\n\nI’m a sucker for a good finance comic so I was happy to sift through the whole pile and pick out some of my favorites to share.\n\nThe 1990s comics had two main focal points — tech stocks and Alan Greenspan.\n\nI know there are a lot of comparisons right now between AI and the dot-com bubble the 1990s feel like they were in a different stratosphere:\n\nWhen talking about my book a number of people asked me [if we could ever see another Great Depression-like calamity](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/11/why-we-cant-have-another-1929/) in the stock market, which was down more than 80%.\n\nYou don’t have to go back that far to see this level of pain in tech stocks. The aftermath of the dot-com bubble was brutal.\n\nThe Nasdaq Composite was down nearly 80%. The Nasdaq 100 crashed more than 82%. That’s a Great Depression-like crash in tech stocks not all that long ago.\n\nIt was painful:\n\nWhen the Nasdaq dropped almost 40% in 2000, the Down was down just 6%. In 2001, the Nasdaq dropped more than 20% while the Dow fell 7%.\n\nInvestors did have a place to hide out in the more boring dividend-paying blue chips:\n\nAlan Greenspan made his now famous [irrational exuberance speech](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/08/is-this-1996-or-1999/) in 1996. The dot-com bubble was just getting warmed up at that point.\n\nGreenspan was a larger-than-life figure in the markets back then.\n\nHere’s a good one on the bubble times:\n\nAnd another one:\n\nGreenspan was a financial celebrity of sorts back then. Investors hung on his every word:\n\nThey even covered Greenspan on the B.C. comic strip:\n\nThis is one of my all-time favorites about the negativity bias in the financial media:\n\nThis one is similar:\n\nThat one came out in 2008 but could easily be used today.\n\nThere are not many bull market cartoons. There are a lot of good bear market comics.\n\nThis one is funny because it’s true!\n\nHere’s another Nasdaq one:\n\nAlso true.\n\nThis is a good soft landing crossover with a bear market:\n\nThere were also a series of comics about how hard it is to predict the markets:\n\nThis one had to come from the likes of Barron’s:\n\nMarkets can twist your brain into a pretzel at times.\n\nThis one sounds like something I would say:\n\nI’m glad this one was in the collection because it’s the greatest Wall Street comic of all-time:\n\nIt’s perfect.\n\nAs the kids like to say — no notes.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\n[“The market is rolling simply because it’s rolling”](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/07/the-market-is-rolling-simply-because-its-rolling/)\n\n1I surprised how much of this stuff still gets by the AI grammar police.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time", "canonical_source": "https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/06/the-greatest-wall-street-comic-of-all-time/", "published_at": "2026-06-17 11:36:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 11:53:13.590464+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups"], "entities": ["Alan Greenspan", "Nasdaq", "Dow Jones", "Barron's"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-greatest-wall-street-comics-of-all-time.jsonld"}}