But it was a great year to finger rotten stocks.
One way is to sell some rotten stocks at a loss, running up a capital loss deduction that can be netted against the Treasury profit.
I play this lovable little rogue who you first meet in the stocks having rotten tomatoes thrown at him.
For his violation of "community standards" Egeland was suspended from Facebook, a form of punishment equivalent to being belted with rotten tomatoes in the stocks.
But then the root of the malaise about investment research on Wall Street may not be the rotten advice on what stocks to buy, but the rotten advice that very difficult decisions about investments could ever be easy.
Even before filming had begun on the fourth instalment of the man vs the machines saga, bloggers were lining up to throw rotten fruit at the stock-bound film-maker.
Mixed up in the hay was all kinds of garbage, such as bottomless shoe-tatters, shoe-patches, old stocking legs, rotten rags of wadmal, pieces of cord, fibers, fragments of horseshoes, horns, bones, gills, fishtails hard as glass, broken wooden bolts and other scraps of wood".
To comedy, say, where you saw very powerful people slipping on banana skins, or maybe being pelted with rotten eggs in the stocks.
While a rotten economy and a rocky stock market will force many to cling to their jobs, they'll eventually have to go.
Ian Patterson, Croydon Park, NSW, Australia Is there any evidence that the medieval practice of putting wrongdoers in the stocks and throwing rotten food at them worked as a deterrent to crime?
