Economic Thinker Pillows

"I'll tell you the meaning of life, if you tell me why bond prices drop when interest rates go up."

'Please remember that these figures could be off as much as two dollars.'

Bernanke follows in Greenspan's footsteps.

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

'I'm afraid that medicine doesn't know all there is to know about treating recession jitters.'

'To learn whether new tax cuts will revive the economy, we're going to try it on a test group of rich people.'

"Feel like a contributing member of society."

"False Start!"

Puerto Rico Troubles

"See! All we have to do is wait!"

'What should I be worrying about? The wholesale price index, the consumer price index, or the industrial price index?'

East Defeats West?

Vast Amounts of Capital

Beggar wanting to stimulate the economy

'These days a penny saved is a penny sitting in a jar somewhere.'

Economic torture.

Economic Fears.

"Ha! No labour costs! No production costs! Man, our profits will go up like a rocket!"

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

"Well, well...look who's back in town..."

'And remember to emphasize we're giving them the opportunity to find a better job.'

Inflation

'Psychiatry is like the Eurozone. We pretend to go forward, whilst maintaining the status quo.'

The Poor and Taxes

'Just so you know, if the school is experiencing economic hardships, I'd be willing to take a furlough.'

'I can't speak for everyone in the 99%, but around here things are still pretty lousy.'

In need of economic stimulus.

Pig Bank Hammer

We're in this together !

'You know, this whole thing is an image problem...easy money, hasty deregulation, arcane derivatives, what have we learned?'

'I just invented the wheel and a new concept called 'growth industry'.'

'Just when you helped me conquer my fears about a stock market collapse, now I'm worried about a US infrastructure collapse.'

Recession

Stan takes the blame: 'Another fine mess you got us into.'

"Ray Brown on bass, Elvin Jones on drums, and Alan Greenspan on interest rates."