Economic Mismanagement Observer Gifts

"But they told me I was too big to fail."

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

'Taxes are going up, but that's no excuse to earn less, Mr. Syms.'

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

'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?'

'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.'

"Victims of out-sorcery."

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'Mr. Donovan, is it all right if I tie my shoelace?'

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

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

"He downgraded Apple."

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

Euro against the Dollar.

"And what do you think of the government's record on housing?"

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

'Get out there and keep your job!'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

Exchange Rate.

'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?"

"Our sales have slumped so much, we now have a couch for them."

Stan believes in calling a spade a spade.

"Isn't it comforting that even in our fast-moving times there are still things that remain as they were?"