Economy Humorists Pillows

'Don't worry -- if business doesn't pick up soon, we can turn ourselves in for the REWARDS!'

Help! Former Greenspan Impersonator Now Everyone wants Bernanke Impersonators.

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

Thrift: have your arms and legs amputated, use a pillow for a bed!

'Pretty strange term, market share, considering the whole object is not to.'

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

"No, it hasn't, but when the sky does fall your investments are going to do very, very, well.''

'Nonsense, Harry, it's my treat. I'm filing for bankruptcy tomorrow.'

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

Trickledown economics

Office of economic forecasting.

Escaping Black Hole - '..But captain that's the pensions black hole there is no escape!'

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

'Oh dear. I seem to have put the decimal point in the wrong place again.'

'We buy and sell them.'

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us and, even if it was, I doubt either of us could afford to buy a place here given the current sellers' market."

'It's the NEW Chinese Stock Market Report.'

A Double-Dip Recession with Sprinkles

Government Handouts.

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."

'Someday, Son, all of this will be yo....!'

'Consumer confidence is up.. in the 'Money in the mattress' sector.'

Grand Opening and Closing Down Sale simultaneously occurring.

'Great! Thanks to the damn mortage crisis, we've got to live in a neighbourhood now where we wake up with yellow feet every second morning...'

First Market Decline

Inflating assets to get a loan. Too poor to pay taxes

Thanks to his stocks, Bob now lives in the middle of a great green garden outside the crowded city.

"Since it cost as much as our house, can we take out a mortgage instead of a loan?"

Bad case of credit crunch, I'm afraid, so we'll have to slowly introduce you to a diet of cash.

Leprechaun finds EU bail out at the end of a rainbow.

Sign - 'Warning: Government Spending Objectives Are Larger Than They Actually Appear.'

'Sorry about the mess -- I've been slashing the Federal budget.'

"These days, many people can only afford to drink from home."