Finance Philosophers Gifts

'Sometimes late at night I'm not sure the leading economic indicators know where they're going,'

'I can't marry you, Susan - I hardly get enough pocket money for myself!'

"I burden you with the national debt, you burden your kids with it, and so on. . ."

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

'Whoever said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' never had a room full of angry shareholders.'

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

Wall St. or True Love.

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

'I don't know if money grows on trees, son. I know it doesn't grow in fields.'

Economic Outlook Conference - 'Remember the seating is optimist, pessimist, optimist,...'

'It's crunch time, Caldwell. That's the time between when you're born, and when you make your first million.'

Flat tax - equal burden?

'My ambition used to drive the economy. Now it drives my Mercedes.'

US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

Stockbroker and Psychotherapist: Money won't make you happy and therapy won't make you rich.

Tempest in a Teapot

'. . .actually I'm not a real Guru, I was forced up here originally by the property prices.'

Money god

"I was a stockbroker first, but when I realized how much time I spent praying, I figured, what the heck?"

"Yes, I am interested in taking a fresh look at my holdings."

'We need people who dream the impossible dreams - like pensions and health care.'

Economic Downturns

"Money is life's report card."

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

'I got a big refund on my income tax.'

"Lucky for you, you died during a bear market."

"The problem with capitalism is the unequal sharing of wealth. The problem with socialism is the equal sharing of wealth..."

'You can't fire me! I'm too big to fail!'

"Stocks edged lower on the news there's more to life than the accumulation of material things..."

Accountant Manqué

'If congress regulates obscene bonuses, isn't that a violation of the first amendment?'

'They're just a few bored students with some vague ideology. They'll be gone and forgotten in no time.'

'Some think we economic forecasters speak a lot of Mumbo Jumbo'

"I hope you love me for my money, not for who I am."

'We do spend a lot and tax a lot, but it's the price you pay for living in a money-based economy.'