Financial Intrigue Fan Prints

'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

"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."

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

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

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

The Apprentice: Recession Special.

"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.'

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

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

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

'Everyone is Economizing.'

Conrad Black loots Hollinger International.

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

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

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

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

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

'Pension fund performance, please give generously.'

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

S.S, Eurozone in Mayday call