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."

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

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

Depressed Businessman at Office Christmas Party.

"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."

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

'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."

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

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

US Dollar weakens.

"Goodbye cruel world."

Squeezing a tight budget...

'Look at my new overdraft its fantastic.'

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

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

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

"Monogamy? In this economy?"

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

The Circle.

'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!'

"I need the saw again."

"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!'

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

"What happened to consumer confidence?"

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

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

'Let's enrol on the last one. We've more chance of getting a job doing that these days.'