Economic Expert Mugs

'The Dow has shot up 2.5% on positive data on housing - until five minutes from now, when it'll be interpreted differently.'

'The trouble started when the world put together a large group of synchronized banks.'

Mervyn King - Governor, Bank of England.

Bailout Plan.

The economic downturn does not effect everyone.

World Economy

"Goodbye cruel world."

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

Albania and North Macedonia: entrance denied

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

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

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

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

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

'Gentlemen, we need a slogan!'

The Shrinking Dollar.

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

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

XYZ Inc, putting a folksy, human face on unfettered corporate greed for over 50 years.

'Cancel his redundancy cheque then phone for an ambulance'

No time for sirtaki now, Greece!

In and Out Sourced.

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

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

Unemployed recession: the irony is killing me

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

"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."

"The economy's been worsening for a while, but people still don't feel it, Rudy." "...Which means we still have time to get in on the despair action." "Despair action"? "We're going to expand our menu. Add more comfort foods, more 'sale' items, debt consolidation loans..." "Nobody's dumb enough to get a debt consolidation loan from some random guy." "Ha ha hoo hoo hee-"

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

Standard & Poor

The burden of carrying the Euro.

'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."