Economic Trends Observer Gifts

Foreign Ownership Control in the US

Germany's new leading role in Europe.

Downsized

World economy

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

Sen. Krupt. I don't tell constituents that we're fueling inflation. I say we're protecting consumers and thanks to us they won't have to worry about buying any cheap stuff.

Man to realtor: 'How much for a starter cubicle?'

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

Loan Alley

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

'Call the boss! We're in trouble!'

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

'Remember, an economic boom is usually followed by an economic kaboom,'

Jumping Wall Street.

'Stocks dropped on the news that governments can fool some people come of the time,but not all the people all of the time.'

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

'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?'

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

'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.'

"And then, like an idiot, I turned to the boss and said 'Maybe the stock market isn't the only thing that's been overvalued!'"

"Victims of out-sorcery."

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

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'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."

Supermarket Merge

Investments: Remember, Time Heals All Stocks.

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

'Lucky for us, there's a sucker born every minute.'

Exchange Rate.

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