Cost-cutting Commentator Pillows

'We'll see significant savings in health care costs with our new in-house operations.'

Budget cuts - please send all email as second class.

'The 'insourcing' will go ahead and some jobs will be off to Leeds or Manchester, but I think I'll be safe...'

'We should buy London and ship it to the States!'

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

Thrift: have your arms and legs amputated, use a pillow for a bed!

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

Chinese stock market

Ukraine Crisis

Early Attempt at Quantitative Easing.

Phil would get giddy after a large print run, but the company was saving a fortune.

"Post Covid it was clear that the old 9-5 was no longer viable, our industry lends itself to home working."

The Affordable Shredder

Spanish bank needs propping up.

'Well, maybe upteen zillion was too general a cost estimate.'

'And finally, a steady decline in earnings has forced us to trim the presentations budget.'

The bailout.

"Sorry, new style pain killer. It's the cut-backs I'm afraid."

Unconditional Surrender

Reagacentennial

Janet always was ahead of the curve...she outsourced herself.

"To save money, 5 employees will share the same computer. I got the idea while I was carpooling."

Euro fall...

Bank of Cyprus-sia

"Now over to our healthcare correspondent."

'If I'm going to do an effective job of reducing costs, I'm going to need a bigger budget.'

Rishi Sunak interrupts Liz Truss in leader's debate

Trump to Fax: Drop Dead

Agency Moody's comments

The euro currency is a bomb.

If I survive this, I'm reinventing myself as a television pundit.

Man applying Eurobond glue to broken Piggy bank

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '

A Second Stimulus is Coming,