Experiencing An Economic Downturn Mugs

'Listen... that sound... we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.'

"Maybe now, we could look at customer care'?"

'All we can do is hope for identity theft.'

'Oh, no! It's all in euros!'

"Sorry, but there aren't enough life jackets to go around."

'Now let's proceed downstairs and see where our stock shares presently sits,'

'I've been sent by the board to ask if you'd be willing to cut your symbolic one dollar a year salary to fifty cents.'

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

'That's where they keep all the money I don't have anymore.'

"This just in! Due to downsizing, the mega-merger of Consolidated Industries and Humungous Corporation has been changed to a simple bankruptcy."

'How long's he been out there?'

'Yes, I think you better had ask Santa for it. Because there's no way I could afford to buy it.'

'We don't have a mission statement. We have a survival plan.'

Didn't know as much about the market as I thought I did.

"Generation X, Y or Z? No idea. My brat is Generation SLSLWMAF - Stinkin' Lazy, Still Living with Mom at Forty."

"Okay, the market took a dive. No reason to panic, Mr. Spielman."

"I remember when you used to see 3 or 4 of these a week!"

"Right, all those in favour of a car boot sale."

"Since they graduated, have any of your children moved back in with you?"

'If the market should go down really deep, I'll be well prepared!'

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

Business jargon : 'significant negative growth' translated into : 'we are dead broke !'

Stress.

Sign says: 'Please Help. Downshifting'

'I run a small investment firm. Unfortunately, it used to be a large investment firm.'

Vulture waiting outside a failing business.

Cadbury's "Recession" - Brown Ale Chocolates

'Probably we will meet more often these days. Due to the crisis I am working overtime.'

"Ms. Benton, please phone my wife and schedule a meeting with her for 3:00! I need a hug!"

'I thought it would be appropriate to have a magician as we went down.'

"All the signs were there. I should have known the company was headed for a nose-dive."

Gorilla investment tactics.