Financial Intrigue Fan Gifts

'There's your problem...ingot blocking the filter.'

'I think they're up to something.'

Greek Crisis

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

"You inherited an extra toe from your father and didn't pay the inheritance tax on it."

'In today's market news, losers outnumbered those who were wiped out.'

Golden bubbles

I hope that "golden showers" dossier about Trump is true. That'd be awesome. How so, little buddy? Well, I was always a big fan of the cold war. I loved "Red Dawn" and "War Games" and "James Bond" and all those really cool cold war movies. If it's true that our new president is actually being blackmailed by the Russians, we might finally have a real "Manchurian Candidate." I've calculated that the number of "Twilight Zone" episodes that might still come true has just grown by half a dozen. I hop

"Wear a wire? Oh, no, all of our police informants have gone wireless."

'We've had a marginal advance-decline on a near-term buy-out, but no one knows if that translates as a downturn or an up-tick.'

Greece - The Black Hole

'It's a deal, for $15 an hour, I'll stand in front of your office.'

'I called you in here because your expenses and contributions appear to be quite elaborate!'

'How's the meeting going, Ed?'

'I can understand Heisenberg's equation and Schrodinger's equation for quantum mechanics but I cannot understand derivative trading.'

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."

"Will the current economic trend end in a whimper or a bang? For answers, let's turn to tonight's guests!"

'I need a loan or a bailout so I can evolve,'

The Apprentice: Recession Special.

"In this company, GDP stands for gree, deception and profit."

"All in favor of a cap on our liability?"

'The new phone system automatically shuts down if someone says we owe them money.'

'But hey, it's only money.'

'The red phone is my grapevine to Andrea Mitchenll, who hears it firsthand from Alan Greenspan, who hears it first from Ben Bernanke.'

'Are you sure it's necessary to sign this part declaring 'all information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge'?.'

'Make sure he doesn't turn his TV to any business news programs while he's here.'

"Maybe what's good for Wall Street isn't good for Main Street, but it's great for Tribeca."

'Here's a hundred bucks -- now, you give me $101.37.'

'Everyone is Economizing.'

Conrad Black loots Hollinger International.

'But if we don't pay huge bonuses our top staff will just leave and go and ruin someone else's business!'

"After years of low level burglaries, Robin Hood started to steal from the rich using a sophisticated Ponzi scheme."

'You're too late...I embezzled it.'

"Are you going to believe me or a bunch of hysterical bank tellers?"

'Pension fund performance, please give generously.'