Debt Discussion Participant Mugs

College graduate selling vacuum cleaners door to door.

'Our admission policy is now simplicity itself. If you have the tuition, you're in.'

"And we will absolutely start lending again as soon as we finish building our debtors' prison."

The burden of carrying the Euro.

Recession

First United Church of Outrageously Overlimited Credit Card Holders

The United States Public Debt.

"If all countries are in debt, who's got all the money?"

It's 10 p.m. Do you know why stocks rise and fall, but the U.S. National debt keeps going up?

Standard & Poors, you dirty dog! Don't pick at our AAA rating!'

Pandora's box.

"Italy's national debt runs into trillions. How do you repossess a country?"

'Welcome graduates, parents, guests, faculty, and home equity loan officers.'

'There's been a change in my recurring nightmare. I'm no longer falling . . . my credit rating is.'

'It's your debt to society.'

"The dow is over 21,000!"

We've been pre-approved by the credit card company to give them a loan.

The Pessimist, the Optimist and the Obamamist.

'When does a tax increase not sound like a tax increase?'

'Why can't we outsource the deficit?'

'One day, son, all this willy be yours...only by then it will have grown and grown...to hundreds of billions...it's called the cost of PFI.'

Life plan

"A raise?! In my day, if we needed more money, we just borrowed it."

"All in favor of a cap on our liability?"

Dinner at the Mortgage Restaurant.

Money lender loan shark and a Bank labelled as a loan goldfish.

GDP-DEBT Struggle.

"Our flag means debt."

"Someday this will all be yours!"

Tender Identity Crisis

Bank Checking and Savings. Your account is overdrawn, sir. Haven't you heard?! Deficit spending is all the rage!

"I remember when he was a cute little pup...now he's become a ravenous monster..!"

'This extraordinary first sign of life...A European crisis agreement has a long and perilous journey ahead before it has any hope of developing into a fully-grown Greek bailout deal...'

"There was a time when only the rich went to university... now even they can't afford it."

Italy Shackled by the Euro Debt Crisis