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"Stock options for your thoughts."

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

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

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

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

"Gentlemen, we're missing a great opportunity by not hitching this company to the current tailspin."

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'It's good to be here. We're having economic problems where we come from.'

"The little engine that could... after taking advantage of family connections, a trust fund, working two years for free as an intern, and finally getting hired as an independent contractor."

"At $4 a dozen, it's hard to balance a career and a family."

'Let's hope the new norm means that less really is more.'

"I'm as progressive as they come, except for my money. No one touches my money."

"In the current market, it's just more practical."

"C'mon people! All for me and me for me!"

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US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

Largest passenger aircraft ever built. "Why does it have to be so big?" "We had to make extra room for all the subsidy money."

"If CEO pay packets aren't a problem, why doesn't everyone get one?"

The burden of carrying the Euro.

Republicans and Democrats debate while the US economy drowns.

"Okay... how about some people are poverty rich but asset poor?"

"Sure, money may be imaginary - but at least it's got everybody imagining it."

'This graph may need some explaining...'

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'I don't know about the ecosystem, but the economy seems to be on the upswing.'

'Mixed day on Wall Street. Economic indicators were up, but executive bonuses were down.'

'So, a bailout is like a Ponzi scheme for automakers?'

"There may be a moral equivalent of war, but, by God, there is not moral equivalent of money."

"Efficiency savings...protect front line services BLAH! BLAH! refocus on core objectives BLAH BLAH!"

'The good news is that we're making huge profits - the bad news is that we won't be getting a bailout.'

'Bad news on Wall Street. The entire stock market has been downgraded to a 'junk' classification.'

'We're quite confident this lull won't last long.'