Economic Realists Mugs

Welcome to the middle class Jer$ey $hore!'

"I know this is not a proper job for a PhD, Mom, but I have student loans to repay."

Road Forks in the Road: No Way and Yes Way.

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

"It's a shame, excellent recommendations and a superb skill set but lacks the boiling hot all consuming ambition and ruthless desire for self promotion required as head of stationary procurement."

"Son, the world is full of disappointments. About 7.7 billion of them."

'I'm going to have to give up drinking and drugs when I leave uni - to pay off my bank loan.'

Depressed Businessman at Office Christmas Party.

'But I do have fun. I have lots lots of fun. I have lots of fun making money.'

"You can't offend me. I never mix religion or politics with reality."

Recession

'Good news, Mr. Blume! Your condition isn't serious - just expensive.'

"Have you ever given any thought to what you're going to do after all your hopes and dreams are crushed?"

'Well, that's simplified the mission statement.'

"I'm not particular, I'll take any job that will replace a human."

"Financial Adviser advises client 'I advise you that you're broke'."

'Remember Jones, your organs are worth more to us than your intellectual property.'

US Dollar weakens.

Squeezing a tight budget...

"Goodbye cruel world."

"Monogamy? In this economy?"

'Look at my new overdraft its fantastic.'

"A glimmer of hope is fine, Hendricks, but anything more than that will lead to massive disappointment."

'The bad news is that the dollar is down -- the good news is that nobody seems to have any.'

"You say that the best thing I could do for my health is to give up alcohol. Let's talk about the second best..."

"Happiness is more important than money,but it is easier to count money."

The Circle.

"I need the saw again."

'That does it. . . Little Freddie is not going to law school! He's going to become an oncologist, Mary a gerontologist and Stevie a pharmacist! We'll be covered!'

"Leaving parties aren't as much fun since they put up the retirement age!"

'Kids, come quick! Santa's been here and he left all kinds of super expensive, super cheap stuff!'

"What happened to consumer confidence?"

"Russia is run by rich oligarchs. America is run by rich insurance companies."

'On jobless...on foreclosed...on worry and insomniac!'

Hang fire on the Champas. Just a glimpse of green roots, so, a small glass of sherry.