Canadian Economy Gifts

Canadian Cheese Producers Attack Imports

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

It's okay Mom! As a broker, I'm under supervision of the SEC!

'It's okay. We'll just push our retirement plan back a bit.'

'Ho,ho,ho, but can you be more specific?'

"I had that nightmare again where everyone found out I'm in my late thirties and still have no idea how the stock market works."

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

'Call the boss! We're in trouble!'

You can breed these if the environment is right.

"Ahh... don't you just LOVE that new, re-organized-under-bankruptcy-protection smell?"

First National Bank. Keep life exciting --- Ask about our variable rate, interest-only mortgages.

'Remember, an economic boom is usually followed by an economic kaboom,'

Preparing for casual dress friday at the investment bank.

"I was going to tell you it's a jungle out there, but I realize that's probably old news to you."

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

Jumping Wall Street.

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

'Greenspan said today the alert staus for the possible interest rate has been reduced from orange to yellow.'

What happens when the bears are running the market.

Remember take time to stop and smell the profits.

'I'll be in late, Ms.Fernwood. Did I get any important margin calls, default, stock splits, foreclosures or bailouts?'

'My company utilizes a yet-to-be-developed technology to deliver content that's still in the conceptual stage to a segment of the economy we really hope is out there!'

End of Year Figs.

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

Counting dollars

"And then, like an idiot, I turned to the boss and said 'Maybe the stock market isn't the only thing that's been overvalued!'"

Warren Buffett as a child

'This app is linked to my financial advisor and provides stimulated hand-holding when the market is down.'

'The hard hats? In case of falling interest rates.'

'Do we want to apply for a credit card that plays the song 'Money Makes The World Go Around' every time it is swiped?'

'That's where they keep all the money I don't have anymore.'

"To say things are bad is an UNDERSTATEMENT...We're staring into a FINANCIAL ABYSS, the COLLAPSE of the banking sector...On the other hand some experts believe that things will be back to normal in a few months ."