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Stock Market Turmoil: Twitter Reacts to Wall Street Nose-Dive With Gallows Humor

Wall Street was in free fall on Monday morning — but dozens of Twitter users were flying high on sarcastic jokes and one-liners.
A man looks at a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, August 24, 2015. Asian stocks plunged to 3-year lows on Monday as a rout in Chinese equities gathered pace, hastening an exodus from riskier assets as fears of a China-led global economic slowdown roiled world markets.
A man looks at a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, August 24, 2015. Asian stocks plunged to 3-year lows on Monday as a rout in Chinese equities gathered pace, hastening an exodus from riskier assets as fears of a China-led global economic slowdown roiled world markets. TORU HANAI / Reuters
By Daniel Arkin

It's a bull market for jokes.

Wall Street was in free fall on Monday morning — but dozens of Twitter users were flying high on sarcastic one-liners and memes.

Here are some highlights:

Daniel Arkin

Daniel Arkin is a national reporter at NBC News.