Economic Jokers Pillows

"I understand that you cannot support the whole economy, minister. I would be perfectly happy for you to support me!"

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.'

"We need a market icon that reflects the ridiculous market conditions..."

"We bring him gifts of gold, frankincense and mercantile mutual hedge fund options."

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

Trickledown economics

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

Office of economic forecasting.

"Let's vote. All those in favour of flying to Switzerland, withdrawing our secret bank account and splitting?"

'Oh dear. I seem to have put the decimal point in the wrong place again.'

'We buy and sell them.'

"We can't just pluck figures out of the air any more. . . We use a bucket."

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us and, even if it was, I doubt either of us could afford to buy a place here given the current sellers' market."

'It's the NEW Chinese Stock Market Report.'

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

'I hate to tell you this, but there was a hole in my pocket, and I lost the budget surplus.'

In case of stock market crash break glass.

A Double-Dip Recession with Sprinkles

'Slaug-ter house? I wonder what that is. C'mon, I'll race you!'

'Someday, Son, all of this will be yo....!'

Man ironing out a line graph.

Government Handouts.

'Consumer confidence is up.. in the 'Money in the mattress' sector.'

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."

Grand Opening and Closing Down Sale simultaneously occurring.

"We'll double our chances of recovery if we buy two lottery tickets."

"Tag! Your salary's frozen."

Thanks to his stocks, Bob now lives in the middle of a great green garden outside the crowded city.

'The only way you can become a millionaire by investing in savings accounts, is to invest millions in savings accounts.'

Bad case of credit crunch, I'm afraid, so we'll have to slowly introduce you to a diet of cash.

'And this is where we attempt to forecast the true size of the spending cuts!'