Economy Strategist Mugs

"I don't know what we'll do when our adjustable-rate mortgage resets."

'I'm banking on gas prices going up this summer.'

Profit

"I keep feeling we should float the company"

"The president demands that staff take responsibility for failures, and the multi-trillion deficit is down to YOU!"

Desk plaques: 'Money isn't everything' '...Which makes it no less awesome in my opinion.'

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

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

"Remember Mr. Cockbundle is not just a 'customer', he is an important source of valuable and readily marketable data."

'That's what I thought, finances are tight: She's switched to no-name cat food...'

Pity vs. Bragging and Public Relations

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

"Allow me to introduce Recession. Recession is here to stay."

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

EU and India partnership.

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

'The good news is we've finally turned the corner. The bad news is, no government bailout.'

Out.

Gold Medal for IOC boss Thomas Bach in the discipline of Brown-Nosing-Dictators-For-Money.

'And these are the projections if we stop doing silly things like paying the employees.'

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

"Post holiday sales look similar to the crater that killed the dinosaurs."

Pre-Old Blues

'Basically it's a stock that if a chain of near miraculous events would happen to occur, you'd make a bundle.'

'I need a tool to measure productivity.'

'We're counting on inflation.'

"To say things are bad is an UNDERSTATEMENT...We're staring into a FINANCIAL ABYSS, the COLLAPSE of the banking sector...On the other hand some experts believe that things will be back to normal in a few months ."

"We have to make massive cuts so we can reduce debt... which will cut into growth which is needed so we can make massive cuts..."

'Money, I'm home!'

Bribes.

'Not only can I not find the middle class tax cut, I can't find the middle class.'

'When you take out food, energy...inflation remained at a 20 year low.'

'Well, that's simplified the mission statement.'

'Well, yes I can see there's definitely potential for growth.'