hat you don’t have to pay for a stock that has gone down in price since you bought it! "Lousy" is a good word for bad, or here, insignificant. $7,000 loss! You assigned me to this guy and you know he has a history of this kind of bullshit. "To assign" a client to a broker is to give them that person’s business. "Bullshit" is a vulgar but excellent word for lies, nonsense, or in this case, unethical or immoral behavior. Howard the jerk reneged on me. A "jerk" is a widely used word for an idiot, bastard, ass, etc… "To reneg" on a person is to refuse to do what you had promised them. I’ve got to cover his losses to the tune of about seven grand. "To cover a person’s losses" is to pay for them. "To the tune of" is a way of saying "that are equal to…" A "grand’ is $1,000. I’m tapped out, Marv. American Express has a hit man looking for me. In this context, if a person is "tapped out," they no longer have any credit left with their credit card company (Here, American Express). A "hit man" is a person paid to kill somebody. What do I got? A c-note? :: Thanks, Marv. I’ll make it up to you. A "c-note" is a $100 bill. "To make it up" to somebody is to pay them back for a favor they have done. 30 seconds after the Challenger blows up, Gekko’s on the phone selling NASA stocks short. The "Challenger" was the space craft the blew up in 1986, killing all the astronauts on board. To "sell a stock short" is to buy investments that go up in value when the stock goes down. NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the federal government. And he had an ethical by-pass at birth. A funny line. "Ethical" is another word for moral, and a "by-pass" is a serious heart operation. This is a way of saying that Gekko was born without morals or ethics, or that that were by-passed at birth. Bud sees his dad, and then after 39 days of calling, gets to meet Gekko. Give me 50 grand and I’ll get you a condo in Florida next Christmas. Short for a "condominium," which is an apartment that people own. You look like you’ve grown another inch, but you don’t look so hot. An inch is a unit of measurement, about the length of a thumb. If a person "doesn’t look so hot," they often look sick or weak (In other context, this could be referring to physical beauty). You’re starting to get bags under your eyes, like your old man. A person’s "old man" is their father. Very slangy. I had a tough day. A "tough" day is a difficult one. DK: He didn’t know who I was when the options he bought took a bath. An "option" is an investment that bets on whether a stock will go up or down. If an investment "takes a bath," it goes down in value. I told you not to get into that racket. You could have been a doctor.
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