A close reading of all those images of brokers with their hands on their faces.

BWHHOHFs are not always on the trading floor. At times they are seated at their desks, playing less glamorous roles than their colleagues who are part of the shouting masses. They, like the average American, have what can only be described as a desk job—filled with spreadsheets, graphs, and mind-numbing data-crunching. BWHHOHFs may be a rare and dying breed. But really, they’re not that much different from us.

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