Economy Detective Mugs

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"Another week another dollar, Jenkins"

"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."

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

British savings accounts

"Welcome to the bank - you'll start at the bottom."

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

Great Chinese Dynasties

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

Today we'll see some misused or misunderstood financial and economic terms. It's said inflation can hurt the economy. But it's absolutely in the tire business. I bought this warm puffy jacket with cash. A down payment. We like beer and coffee. Our most valuable liquid assets. In a monopoly breakup, the race car would to go one person and the dog to another. And when I become either a buyer or a seller. He's shorting the market!

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

The economy.

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

'Today the stock market was moribund, as growth equities sputtered and bonds dipped due to the inverted yield curve. I'd translate that into layman's terms...but they don't pay me enough.'

'We're living in a round hole economy.'

'You know the economy's in trouble when the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans only has 350 names on it.'

'I want to claim for black marker pens.'

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'You have to reconcile your gross habits with your net income.'

'For an explanation of the financial terms of this loan, please enroll in a continuing-education economics class at your local community college.'

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.

'well of course I'm giving your portfolio the attention it deserves, I'm even wearing a black armband!'

Russia Money Laundering

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

Economy

Manufacturing will take place in China...So what role does Europe have?...you borrow money to be the customer

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"I was going to tell you it's a jungle out there, but I realize that's probably old news to you."

"It's simple supply and demand. The shorter the supply, the more money we demand."

"Tax evasion is like a cancer, it's growing exponentially!"

Woman at a desk with in out boxes marked Market Up Market Down.

Bookstore. The Stock Market for Dummies. It's either an instructional guide or a history of recent economics.