Econ Expert Gifts

'What did the fund manager say to the investment advisor?'

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

Albania and North Macedonia: entrance denied

"Maybe now, we could look at customer care'?"

Airline Debts: Layoffs to help us stay afloat.

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

Desk plaques: 'Money isn't everything' '...Which makes it no less awesome in my opinion.'

'Let's just wait here until the federal stimulus returns.'

So I'm "cheap." It's a perfectly good word. And it aptly describes my interest in conserving resources. I suppose we could call you "thrifty." Heavens no! And waste two whole letters? I see we've only wasted one whole tea bag.

Economic Outlook Conference - 'Remember the seating is optimist, pessimist, optimist,...'

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

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

"We're counting on you to reverse this trend before this afternoon's investors meeting."

'For Harland, the only game in town is the bulls versus the bears...'

"Allow me to introduce Recession. Recession is here to stay."

"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."

Gold Medal for IOC boss Thomas Bach in the discipline of Brown-Nosing-Dictators-For-Money.

Standard & Poor

'And these are the projections if we stop doing silly things like paying the employees.'

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

Annual Stockholders' Meeting: Take some tissues.

"Post holiday sales look similar to the crater that killed the dinosaurs."

Bank P45's - 'Cashier number 5 please.'

'Dow, Jones, Russell & Nikkei - Leading economic indicators.'

Davos.

'Basically it's a stock that if a chain of near miraculous events would happen to occur, you'd make a bundle.'

'In a Washington economic summit, a panel of three economists offered two dozen opinions about the direction of global economics.'

Does your accountant share your enthusiasm for the future...We're fantastically excited about the new project!

"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 ."

"Those eco-terrorists are going to cost us a FORTUNE!!"

'Not only can I not find the middle class tax cut, I can't find the middle class.'

Bribes.

'Why don't you start a small business with a loan from a bank?'