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Faces of the Meltdown

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What losing millions of dollars looks like.

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It was the perfect Internet find this week: Sad Guys on Trading Floors. The Tumblr site aggregates the now-iconic photos of stock brokers looking glum—and, boy, they did they have material. Popular poses include the trader with hands over forehead, followed by the trader with hands over mouth. These men and women are to the financial pages what Brad and Angelina are to Us Weekly. The Wall Street Journal, however, lacks the funny captions.

Read it at Sad Guys on Trading Floors

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