Economic Humor Fan Prints

'Escape? Are you serious. In this economy?'

Vulture sitting on company profits graph.

"Inflation doesn’t seem so bad to me."

'It's from America - They want to borrow money.'

I think I can explain what happened to your investment, with the use of this simple chart.

'A recent surge in sales for Red Hot Polish Smokies indicates the highest level of consumer confidence since lunch yesterday.'

Ice cube selling penguin out of business.

'We're leaving now...turns out we're not familiar with your idea of...'a job!''

'Do you remember when we used to do the bump?'

'Now that I have your attention...'

'The check is in the email attachment.'

Loan Alley

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

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

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

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

Our Motto: Buy Low Sell High is the Best Revenge.'

'All we can do is hope for identity theft.'

'This financial report is frightening. Who wrote it, Stephen King?"

Jumping Wall Street.

"While we're on the subject of earnings, does anyone have a clever metaphor using the word, 'toilet'?"

"Greetings, Earthling - Are you a worker or a drone?"

'A temporary solution would be to white out this part of the chart.'

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

'Eureka! I found the gene that causes people to sell low and buy high!'

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

'Credit being what it is, I'm sure you won't mind if we see your 200,000 cattle first...'

'Oh that's weird! i just had a shiver go down my wallet. My wife must have just bought something.'

Trickledown economics

In case of falling markets break glass.

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

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

"I'd like these invested in an aggressive mutual fund."

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

Office of economic forecasting.