Financial Growth Observer Gifts

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

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

'He's so rich, when he writes a cheque the bank bounces.'

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

Loan Alley

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

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

'Money is a bit tight at the moment, so instead of cash we wondered whether you'd settle for 20% more meaningless protestations of how much we value you?'

'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.'

'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?'

Highschool sign.

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

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

"He downgraded Apple."

Exchange Rate.

Euro against the Dollar.

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

'Gentlemen we need more growth.'

The Red Carpet

'Get out there and keep your job!'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

'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.'