Economic Downturn Observer Prints

"This just in! Due to downsizing, the mega-merger of Consolidated Industries and Humungous Corporation has been changed to a simple bankruptcy."

'I've been sent by the board to ask if you'd be willing to cut your symbolic one dollar a year salary to fifty cents.'

City Centre Apartments/Investors Jumping Off Them

Sen. Krupt. I don't tell constituents that we're fueling inflation. I say we're protecting consumers and thanks to us they won't have to worry about buying any cheap stuff.

Mario Draghi

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

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

'Taxes are going up, but that's no excuse to earn less, Mr. Syms.'

'Bit of a staffing problem, Boss. We haven't got any left.'

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

'Remember, an economic boom is usually followed by an economic kaboom,'

'Oh, no! It's all in euros!'

'Stocks dropped on the news that governments can fool some people come of the time,but not all the people all of the time.'

'Money is a bit tight at the moment, so instead of cash we wondered whether you'd settle for 20% more meaningless protestations of how much we value you?'

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

"Victims of out-sorcery."

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

"And then, like an idiot, I turned to the boss and said 'Maybe the stock market isn't the only thing that's been overvalued!'"

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

Obama's Financial Reform Pill: I hope they won't need a glass of water.

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

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

Supermarket Merge

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

V-O Day

Exchange Rate.

"He downgraded Apple."

Euro against the Dollar.

'Get out there and keep your job!'

'Commerical real estates' man excited by peak in sleeping 'Rental rates' monitor

Stock Market Roller-coaster.

'Oh, just sitting around, waiting for the next computer generated trading bubble to burst, sending the market into death spiral.'