Numbers dressed up in fancy suits pretending to be words.
A bond from a company with a credit rating so low it's essentially an IOU written on a napkin. They offer higher interest rates to compensate for the very real possibility that the company might not exist next year. Wall Street rebranded them as "high-yield bonds" because junk sounded too honest.
A recorded transaction in the accounting system showing debits and credits that must balance. Each entry tells a tiny story of money moving, though reading them is only slightly more entertaining than watching paint dry.