The characters trade millions of imaginary dollars of stock every day, "shaking fingers in one another's flushed faces; buying, selling, in an intoxicated, maddened state of nerves and mind bordering on insanity".
(He ran as a modern conservative, and went on to divert a large part of the treasury into a stock of imaginary devices that were going to "sniff" offshore oil from the sky).
paper inspires an imaginary story.
In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, writing in 1961, "Boiler-room operators, peddlers of stocks in the imaginary Canadian mines, mutual-fund managers whose genius and imagination are unconstrained by integrity, as well as less exotic larcenists, should read about Kreuger.
Performing arts, sports, space, science camps -- there are even business camps where children speculate on the stock market and manage imaginary portfolios.
I once saw her pretend to run an imaginary shop at a gig and do a stock check for ages.
When it turns out that Olivia's drawings are coded money-yielding stock predictions delivered to her by her imaginary friends, Evan's plummeting career undergoes a sharp V-shaped recovery.
Captain Fleery's faith inspires Lina to put stock into her own dreams of a soaring, imaginary city.
During that time, No Cents has turned an imaginary $100,000 into $116,838.98 by trading in and out of some 300 stocks.
Each player is given 100,000 imaginary euros or dollars to invest in any of 750 stocks from each country's listed exchange.
