Finance Observer Gifts

"How's this for a press release - our obscenely high bonuses are to be rationalised and understood as mimetic desire."

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

"I'm more of a 'How Jen stays thin' person than a 'Why Jen won't let Brad alone' person."

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

"Every night the same gets legless, swearin 'n' fightin' then slumps into a stupor. . ."

"That shirt is so last year."

Economy Slows: 'It's still too fast for me.'

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

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

'Yes, we have a very diversified economy around here.'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

'Why don't you start a small business with a loan from a bank?'

"He downgraded Apple."

'You wouldn't threaten your bank manager...er...maybe...'

'Get out there and keep your job!'

Exchange Rate.

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

Euro against the Dollar.

The Red Carpet

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

'Commerical real estates' man excited by peak in sleeping 'Rental rates' monitor

Business isn't booming.

'Oh, just sitting around, waiting for the next computer generated trading bubble to burst, sending the market into death spiral.'

"Fellow M.B.A. graduates of the Class of '91—hey, what can I say?"

'These are our projected profits as capitalism self-destructs.'