Economic Downturn Ponderer Gifts

'You can't fire me! The middle class is an endangered species.'

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

Mario Draghi

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

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

"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!'"

'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.'

'That's where they keep all the money I don't have anymore.'

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

'I'm sorry, Collin, but our Dreyfus Mid-Cap fund completely tanked, so we're going to have to let you go.'

'It's nice but will it be a hedge against inflation.'

Trumped

The Boom-Bust Cycle of Capitalism

Didn't know as much about the market as I thought I did.

"Will the current economic trend end in a whimper or a bang? For answers, let's turn to tonight's guests!"

"Okay, the market took a dive. No reason to panic, Mr. Spielman."

You know retail is in a bad way when...

'And the good news is - we're in deep doo-doo.'

"Right, all those in favour of a car boot sale."

"Perkins, sometimes consistency is not a virtue."

"I remember when you used to see 3 or 4 of these a week!"

"Since they graduated, have any of your children moved back in with you?"

'Of course business is slow. Would we want it any other way?'

'What gives you the idea we're on a sinking ship?'

"I am reminded of a morbidly depressing anecdote. . ."

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

Nation of Has-Beens (and Never-Will-Bes)

'Bad news I'm afraid...You've got the worst inheritence for a generation.'

'It's always so sad when they repossess.'

'Jeeves...Jeeves...'

Sign says: 'Please Help. Downshifting'

Stress.

Business jargon : 'significant negative growth' translated into : 'we are dead broke !'

Cadbury's "Recession" - Brown Ale Chocolates

Bank manager with no business has tumbleweed blowing into office.