Dealing With A Recession Mugs

'Cuts are everywhere these days, mate.'

'The Board has chosen you to handle the restructuring because you have no heart.'

'All we can do is hope for identity theft.'

'Budget cuts have forced us to drop our day-care program. I've contacted your mother to come and pick you up.'

Sub-prime Bear

Paper Profits Break Glass In Case of Emergency.

"Sorry, but there aren't enough life jackets to go around."

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

"Here, we realized it was not some awful fever dream."

"Phew! I'm glad this part of the ride is over..."

'Yes, I think you better had ask Santa for it. Because there's no way I could afford to buy it.'

'Am I glad to be back - austerity's gone mad out there!'

"Well, the first reactions to the terrible truth are anger and sadness, but now it's time to act like men!"

'We don't have a mission statement. We have a survival plan.'

"Any sign of recovery yet?"

The Circle.

'This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up.'

'Since bottom line growth has been so robust, big business wants to thank you all in advance for not applying with them.'

Coming out of the crisis

'Listen... that sound... we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.'

'There will be no more pocket money kids. Dad bank has gone in to liquidation.'

"Things are looking up..."

Home Owners.

"This is our first recession together."

"This place looks a bit run down."

'Can you let me have five till Obama bails us all out, sir?'

"Today's graphic is small and complicated to shield us from the truth a little while longer."

"Oh, I'm just riding out the cycle."

More Toxic Assets.

'You can't fire me! The middle class is an endangered species.'