Financial Critique Fan Prints

"Our studies have shown that 'nature' and 'nuture' are both important but nothing like as important as a trust fund!"

Eighty, eighty five, ninety, ninety five and five makes a pound.

Illustration to Punch Commerce Section

The Year of The Dog

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

"Gentlemen, I'm pleased to say the firm is perfectly positioned to avoid chapter eleven and still be in existence this time next year."

Bank Loan Dept. Personal Business. Uh-oh, some loans have gone bad! A tennis pro defaulted and a novelist is in Chapter 7. The bed linens company folded and the scuba school went under! Are any of our loans still good? Yeah, the music streaming service is totally sound! And ironically, the lighting company is in the black!

LEMONADE 50 CENTS, 'I'm only seven years old -- I don't HAVE a credit rating yet!'

All bets are off as Round One begins in the "Dollars versus Donuts" World Championship title fight.

'I'm sorry I missed your recital. Daddy was on the phone with his broker, checking on bond yields. It's another form of bonding, son.'

"I made money the old fashioned way. I inherited it."

European currency on the edge.

Economy - USA.

'well of course I'm giving your portfolio the attention it deserves, I'm even wearing a black armband!'

What do you suggest we do about this?

Man pushing Euro sign up a hill.

'I enjoy the old-fashioned pleasures - a walk on the beach, plain food and piles of cash.'

'And this will be our strategic plan for the coming year.'

"Our initial public offering, .... The public has gotten wind of it!"

'Of course I'm squirreling away money!'

'I wonder how the economy is doing.'

"You never actually own a pension pot - you merely look after it for the next government."

'So, a bailout is like a Ponzi scheme for automakers?'

'We've gone to profit-sharing. But it's with the IRS.'

'Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.'

Greek Crisis

Golden parachutes inc. - 'Our pleas for bail-out funds were ignored.'

'You go without me. I'm feeling a little down today.'

'This app is linked to my financial advisor and provides stimulated hand-holding when the market is down.'

Piggy Bank Coin I.V.

IRS: The country is broke, but your taxes cannot be construed as 'Charity to the Poor'.

'Stocks rose on news that '90% of success is just being there.''

'And this just in from the stock market... buy, sell, buy, sell, buy, sell, buy!'

World Financial Mafia

Trickledown economics