Economic Comedians Pillows

Cost of Fuel

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

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

'Pretty strange term, market share, considering the whole object is not to.'

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

"No, it hasn't, but when the sky does fall your investments are going to do very, very, well.''

'Nonsense, Harry, it's my treat. I'm filing for bankruptcy tomorrow.'

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

Trickledown economics

"Good to see they're trying to keep the high street vibe."

Office of economic forecasting.

Escaping Black Hole - '..But captain that's the pensions black hole there is no escape!'

"Okay, what if we go outside - will it still be insider trading then?"

'Oh dear. I seem to have put the decimal point in the wrong place again.'

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

'It's the NEW Chinese Stock Market Report.'

"I know they say that laughter at work is healthy, but not when they're laughing at our profit forecasts!"

'We buy and sell them.'

"We went dutch - he must have reached his two-hundred-dollar dating deductible."

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us and, even if it was, I doubt either of us could afford to buy a place here given the current sellers' market."

'Today a ray of hope . . .'

A Double-Dip Recession with Sprinkles

'Consumer confidence is up.. in the 'Money in the mattress' sector.'

TELLER, 'Thirty-seven dollars? -- you call THAT overdrawn?'

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."

'Someday, Son, all of this will be yo....!'

First Market Decline

Investments: Still Open to New Investors - 'A fool & his money fund.'

'Great! Thanks to the damn mortage crisis, we've got to live in a neighbourhood now where we wake up with yellow feet every second morning...'

'Darn, all these coupons are expired. We could have saved 50 cents on 9 cans of dog food.' 'We don't have a dog.'

Grand Opening and Closing Down Sale simultaneously occurring.

Government Handouts.

Thanks to his stocks, Bob now lives in the middle of a great green garden outside the crowded city.

"These days, many people can only afford to drink from home."

"Since it cost as much as our house, can we take out a mortgage instead of a loan?"