Economy Eagle Mugs

"My ship came in, but the Government put it in dry dock."

"Another week another dollar, Jenkins"

"And need I remind you, the 'art of the deal' is the lifeblood of this company."

The day the stock market went UP.

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!

"Obviously some people here don't appreciate the gravity of our situation."

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

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

'Let's just wait here until the federal stimulus returns.'

'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.'

'Dammit - how do we get in on that gross national product?'

"Ten Dollars?! I can't eat that." Bob was on a strict low-cost diet.

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

Warning that Inflationary Policies Could Lead to Crash on Wall St

Russia Money Laundering

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.

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

"We may have to rob from the rich AND the poor."

Got stuck in Iraqi oil, Unca Sam?

'Stocks rose on the rumor that the market is mostly rumor-driven.'

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

The symbol for the euro (?) depicted as the wheel of a wheelchair, symbolising the state of the currency

Euro crisis: The euro walking over a cliff

'Dad, I know all about the birds and the bees; explain stock-swaps and derivatives.'

US dollar rising and falling.

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'And, at those prices, we have two wheel well seats available.'

"It was rated on all the travel websites. 'Best economy tour'."

"There she be, lads, the special economic zone!"

'If we're going to be the sponsor of a winter Olympic even, it should be the downhill.'

"When I got laid off, the corporation enlisted me in the army."

Business Outlook

'Sir, the company's had another successful month treading water.'

The two faces of capitalism.