Finance Philosopher Mugs

"I'm getting subtle hints of what the Fed might do."

The Victorious Turtle

'We were in the right place at the right time but, unfortunately, we were in the wrong time zone.'

"As a Baby Boomer, I never thought the boom would be the sound of my retirement accounts collapsing."

'Read an investment book that changed my life...please help.'

Debt.

'Greenspan today explained the reason the Fed faises interest rates is so they can lower them again.'

'I was hoping my life would fit the rags to riches model. Instead I've had to settle for rags to large amounts of unsecured debt.'

"Only one thing could be worse than paying income tax. Not having to pay it."

"I forget—are these your friends where we pretend we make more money than we actually do, or less?"

'How can a loan be risky when you can get a government bailout?'

"Mr. Harlow, let me give you a piece of advice: Everything is a bubble."

Sign over one of three teller lines at a bank reads "Reassurances"

"It just appeared after I'd transferred my portfolio into ethical investments."

Where is Goes

"Since when is malicious, meanspirited and possibly criminal behavior considered unacceptable."

"I'll not be a grub forever...soon I'll be a butterfly...I'll be in the money...DRAT!"

'So that's why your stock sells at 36,000 times earnings.'

Getting a second opinion on the financial aspects of your treatment."

'What a coincidence. My student loan payment is the same as my unemployment check.'

Recycling.

'Say, aren't you my old financial advisor?'

'The cost of living is always the same, all you have and a little more.'

'I used to be a 'nut', but since I made millions in the market, I'm a 'contrarian'.'

"I worry that we're headed for a future where you won't be able to earn three hundred times the salary of your lowest paid worker."

"When I was a child, I lost childish amounts of money, but when I became a man I put away childish losses and started losing man-sized amounts of money."

Thursday, August 2, 1990, Early in the Morning, the Watternods' Dog Ponders the S. & L. Mess

"Brian blew his entire advance on food, shelter, and clothing."

"Love you, love us, and I'm comfortable with our debt level."

"Look, if it makes you feel any better, Nana and Poppa are still paying off their student loans."

A confused-looking cleaner at a bank sweeps up bills from the floor.

"Whose cash are you calling idle?"

"I'm sorry, Harrigan, But a man's gotta do what a man's accountant says he's gotta do."

"That's enough. I'm not so good with money."

Robert Macaire speaking to wife about the loss of her dowry