Here’s an interesting question. A reader writes:
"I was thinking since the phrase "cult of the bear" is being so widely embraced especially on Real Money,maybe you can start using a counter label that that similarly derides the bulls . . .?"
I like the concept of the counter phrase. Any ideas as to what they should be called? Here’s my short list:
The Bullish Herd
The Under-performers
Market Cheerleaders
The Hype Brigade
Long & Wrong
The one trick ponies
Happy Talk Squad
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Add your own euphimisms in the comments below . . .
Not sure where the the term originated, but ‘Permabulls’ is concise and to the point…
To get a little more creative, how ’bout Sunshine Pumpers… or Johnny One-Notes… or Kudlowites…
How about “Bull Squad”? This could be abbreviated to BS.
How about “Cult of the Man-Cow?”
Cult of the man-cow! That has my vote.
“Sunshine Pumpers” , LOL, hilarious. Permabulls is an apt classic.
But fresh labels make good tv, how about the “Mindless Herd” or the “Stampeding Ones”? However I feel “Secret Shorters” or “pump and dumpers ” is more accurate for a number of them that appear in front of the camera.
The one trick ponies
Howzabout “The Steers?” They look like bulls, and sometimes they act like bulls, but in the end, they’ve got nothing.
Yeharr
Horny Bulls or Hornies
The Bullheaded
The Bullheaded
well creamed bull has a nice flavour
OPUDs
I rather be known as “the optimist” than a “man cow”
How about Nirvana Nuts!!
udder-performers
The Jim Cramer Experience featuring The Bullish Herd
Fidelity
Holy Cows
I don’t see cult of the bear as deriding…
How ’bout “Rosie Ray Bans”
I don’t see cult of the bear as deriding…
How ’bout “Rosie Ray Bans”?
ghosts of grandeur lost
The opine of the bovine?
The faction of cattle action?
Do they “moo at the market” rather than bark at the moon?
Mad Bull disease
‘The Pollyannas’
how about “The Bunch of Bull”. An added bonus is that it reminds me of the Brady Bunch. How can you go wrong with Barry Williams & Co.?
neoconservatives
How about Hieronymus Bosch’s “…Ship of Fools”
(http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/b/bosch/painting/shipfool.html)
The ‘Eloi ‘ Bulls of ‘Time Machine’ fame would be very appropriate.
The ‘Eloi ‘ Bulls of ‘Time Machine’ fame would be very appropriate.
Herd Nation
Mad Cow Clique
Doin Da Bull
How ’bout:
“The glass half full of Bullshiners.”
something got messed up at your site: I posted Mad Cow Disease, not The Pollyannas
The Bloviating Bovines (with apologies to Bill O’Reilly)
I like “The Bullheaded.” There’s something fishy about so much optimism: http://limnology.eeob.iastate.edu/Studies/CrystalLake/Bullhead.JPG
HOW ABOUT “THE BULLSHEVIKS”
The Deniabulls
The Bullards
The Bullyannas
The Bowhiners
Irrational Hornblowers
Rainbow chasers
The BullShi%ters
how about the bullish bozos
Too Full of Bulls
“Those that wear bull colored glasses.” it brings an interesting visual to my mind, that of brown opaque lenses rather than rose. also it implies that the wearers
are only seeing what they want to see.
-][
Some of these suggestions are great. Ones that elicited the biggest guffaw and/or seemed spot-on and/or appropriately disrespectful from my POV were:
1. Cult of the Man-Cow (nicely twisted, made me not sure I should be reading it)
2. Bull Squad (nice image of collective muscle and excellent abbreviation)
3. Sunshine Pumpers (ahh, double meaning, double meaning – like that a lot)
4. Market Cheerleaders (pretty accurate when all is said and done)
All hard to beat but I’ll propose “Sacred Order of the Sell-side” (SOS) just to keep the ball rolling.
RW
PS: Permabull is certainly the most recognizable but usually countered w/ “Permabear” — both are “one-note” stances so to speak — so the necessary contrast with Cult of the Bear which implies something more like a more complex social body or organization with a shared liturgy and secret handshake seems weakened.
the Woolly Bully’s, ya know
wool over your eyes,etc.
“Sunshine Pumpers” is both naughty and nice at the same time. Love it!
Longhorns !!
Crazed and Confused
Fad Money Crowd
Sad Money
Cow Now
Texas Longwrongs
Heifer Hogs
Bull Bloats
PS I think Barry is trying to stampede the herd with this hurtful humor.
Bovine Blasphamy
Cow Now
Texas Longwrongs
Heifer Hogs
Bull Bloats
PS I think Barry is trying to stampede the herd with this hurtful humor.
Bovine Blasphamy
How about “Bull on Parade”
er I meant “Bulls on Parade”
Cult of the Tenderloins!!
Also note — if the word ‘Pumpers’ is a bit strong for the MSM, ‘Sunshine Brigade’ is less caustic yet still retains the flavor… and Brigade is just a cool word.
It makes me think of hyperactive firemen, eager to douse any outbreak of pessimism they see. The WSJ does this constantly with their breathless earnings headlines, e.g. “Yahoo profit soars, but fickle investors sell anyway.” Stupid old fickle investors!
I’m quite fond of the term “HYPERBOLISTS”, it can be applied to so many over the top, serial exaggerators.
The Cult of the Three Monkeys
“See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil”
hhmmmmm, I smell BBQ!
how bout gazarelli gang or bull leggers
how ’bout bragadocious or bamboozled bovines?
bdtobias’ “Hyperbolists” could easily be converted to Hyperbullists.. or is that too much?
Cock-and-Bull Enthusiasts is my contribution though the Sunshine Brigade is awfully nice.
I’m liking The Sunshine Brigade
good ring to it
How about “The Steer Clears”?
i know you are a seinfeld fan. how about “The Bizarro Bulls”.
I like you Hype Brigade the best…. that is all they are, a bunch of Hype…
The Kudlowites
Many good suggestions here. Catchiness is more important than double-entendres or other wit that might be lost on the masses. Therefore, my vote goes to either:
HyperBullists or
Bullheads (“School of” ..?)
Sect of the eternal pollyannas.
how ’bout tough taurus’
How about Long Gone!
The “No Down” Side
The Cattle
One Eyed Willies
Speculation Nation
The Sunshine Gang
The Interested Party
The Blowoff Brigade
Team Silver Lining
For those who remember the ’90’s: “Battapaglia-bots”
The Moon Shot Crowd
the Bullshitters (too graphic?)
the Toreadors…
no. the Rodeo Clowns!
Actually, upstream someone said the Bullsheviks. That’s perfect.
Feedlot Cattle
Wiki definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot
As a tribute to Hoofy the Bull, “Hoof in the Wall Gang” or “Ste-er do Wells”.
Long Duk Dong?
Greater Fools
Mesa-Never-Sellsa Club
THE BOOYAH BOYS!