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

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.'

'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?'

"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!'"

'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."

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

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

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

"He downgraded Apple."

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

Exchange Rate.

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

'Get out there and keep your job!'

Euro against the Dollar.

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

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

Business isn't booming.

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

"Fellow M.B.A. graduates of the Class of '91—hey, what can I say?"

'George, are you responsible for chopping down this here World Economy?'