Bear Market

Definition
n. A bear market is a downturn in the stock market where the wealth created by hard-working Americans like you and me temporarily vanishes due to the whims of the free market.

Modern economic theory holds that while wealth-generating Bull Markets are common during conservative administrations, the feared Bear Markets are common during the fiscally irresponsible and pro-regulation years of a liberal administration which strangle the innate yearnings of the free American people. The most extreme example of this was the Great Depression when the market crashed in a pre-emptive protest against the creeping socialism voted in with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Other Usages
In Hungary a Bear Market is an open-air market in which dancing bears are bought and sold.