Merchandise
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Pit Trading 101 Film
Step into Chicago’s famed commodity pits during their heyday to learn the brutally physical and emotionally challenging world of pit trading, now virtually extinct.
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Extremist
Its alleged meaning is intolerance, hatred, racism, bigotry, crackpot theories, violence. Its real meaning is: “The advocacy of capitalism.”
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Uncle Miltie
It’s impossible to fully appreciate the global contributions and influence of Nobel Prize-winning, free market economist Milton Friedman.
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Dress Like a Local
The wild blur of brightly colored trading floor jackets has become one of the most familiar and heroic images of financial markets.
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5 quadrillion percent
Communist philosophy destroyed Yugoslavia with rights-violating policies that created the worst hyperinflation in modern history.
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Entitlement Society
America’s Entitlement Society features original essays by Stephen Moore, Herman Cain, Larry P. Arnn, Jonathan Hoenig and others.
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In Omnia Paratus
We celebrated the Fund’s 12 years of absolute return investing worldwide with a deceptively subtle long-sleeve t-shirt.
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Public Enemy #1
The President warned it would “destroy our country, our homes, our liberties, our property, and finally our national pride.”
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Collectivist Currency
Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazis massacred over 20 million people. Fueling their murderous evil was the philosophy of collectivism.
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Dow 10,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average first closed above 10,000 on March 29, 1999 amid a historic bull market in technology stocks.
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Minority Matches
Created in response to the 2006 Chicago indoor smoking ban and sent to mayors of large cities nationwide.
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Stock Certificate
Handmade by celebrated poster artist Jay Ryan, Stock Certificate features a free-markets theme.
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1984
Yuppies are upper middle class professionals in their 20s or 30s. First popularized in the 1980s, the term faded after the 1987 market crash.
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American Capitalist
A defiant statement for capitalism and individual rights. In modern culture, the American capitalist walks around with a target on his back.
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The $100 Trillion Bill
Zimbabwe’s dollar was once worth more than the U.S. dollar, but plummeted amid governmental violations of property rights.
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Safe Deposit
Safe Deposit celebrates the steel vaults that once protected private bullion, jewelry, certificates, documents and coins.
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Wall Street Kid
Released in 1990 for the NES, Wall Street Kid was among the first console stock market simulators for the American market.
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Zines
Before blogs, there were zines, ours was published during the mid-1990s and distributed throughout Chicago bars and coffeehouses.
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Black and Proud
Our classic black T-shirt long hung in the office of Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of CME Group and the creator of financial futures trading.
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Kaupthing Bank
Kaupthing was an Icelandic bank that ranked among the largest and most profitable in the world before imploding in 2008.
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Corzined
The term “Corzined” describes when something of value is stolen yet the individual in charge of safeguarding the valuable claims total ignorance.
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Playboy Portfolio
Founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, the iconic magazine has produced only four Wall Street-themed issues.
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How to Chart
Never reprinted, How to Chart Facts From Figures With Graphs influenced generation of technicians. You get a stock pick too, natch.
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Atlas + Absolute Return
Previously available only to investors, these hand-screened cards were created by The Bird Machine to mark the Fund’s 5th anniversary.
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Greed Is Good
This 250 page paperback was cited as “one of the best business books of 1999″ by Money. Signed by the author.
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Tank
Designed by Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine, the 18″ x 24″ image is hand silk-screened on archival quality paper.