Jokes reveal people's unhappiness with lax stock market management

DOMESTIC STOCK MARKETS experienced a huge, unexpected fall on Monday. On the Shanghai Stock Exchange, about 100 stocks fell to their daily limit, and the start-up board fell by more than 5 percent. On the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the index fell by 4.51 percent. Yet people made jokes about it, blaming a sculpture near Beijing Financial Street for having brought bad luck. Such black humor shows people are unhappy with the management of the domestic capital market, says a column on Beijing News:

Whenever there is a dramatic drop in the stock market, or abrupt fall in stock prices, people always make witticisms pinning the blame on whatever sculpture is on Financial Street for bringing bad luck.

When stocks fell on Monday, the sculpture was a group of naked children, and people jokingly said they mean "we are too poor to have clothing".