Ephemeral Economists Mugs

"I live for twenty four hours. How can I fund a 401 K?"

"What do you think I can get for it on the blackboard market?"

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

Chicken - "The Dow is falling...the dow is falling..."

"Who says you can't take it with you? This one has a fireproof lining."

"Just as I feared. Tariffs."

'Voodoo economics was bad enough, but this voodoo foreign policy....'

"Italy's national debt runs into trillions. How do you repossess a country?"

'The people who've been running our economy say we don't have to worry about global warming.'

'Sorry, lad, but I lost all me gold during the recession. All I can give ya is a buck thirty in change!'

'Greenspan was back for a guest appearance. He didn't say it's gonna be a bear market. He said it's a beware market!'

....Today the new economic forecasts get published...and that means we have to work overtime...sorry.

"We're trying to put the fun back into filing taxes."

More toxic assets.

Iain Duncan Smith: Welfare reform

'You can't take it with you so I'm sending it on ahead.'

'We'll know if capitalism is in real trouble if the rich stop getting richer.'

"Leading economic indicators tell me I should go shopping."

"Remember when we went out every weekend?? I miss that... Let's get dressed up and go somewhere really expensive!!"

Akme National Bank: Our Assets Can Whip Your Assets.

Flat tax

'I only invented money last month, and I already have four payments due!'

"Now that we've received our stimulus checks I think I'll head down town and riot."

Covid Relief

Economic theory office with two boxes on desk - 'the rich get richer' and 'the poor get poorer'.

'Government economists said today's stock market drop was due to 'normal gravitational forces'.'

'Today, a downturn in 'social conscience' stocks on news that 'nice guys finish last'.'

'I can't make ends meet, let alone justify the means.'

'Good news for people who hide their money under the mattress.'

Man weighing a pound sign against Great Britain.