Financial Maestro Mugs

'What a wonderful day to declare chapter 13!'

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

Profit

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

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

'I'm sorry but I'm afraid the corporation is going in a different direction.'

Desk plaques: 'Money isn't everything' '...Which makes it no less awesome in my opinion.'

'Lion Tamer experience hey? Well, I have a project currently needing your management skills...'

'You know the economy's in trouble when the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans only has 350 names on it.'

"We need to change, but WHEN?"

"I'm not happy about what the economists are predicting."

"I can always tell when Philip is working on family finances. A 'cursor' appears on both sides of the computer screen."

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'I'm going to practice on you before I start managing other people.'

'When investment bankers give parental advice'

"I need to increase my salary so I can increase my spending."

'I think I must be ambidextrous. I can calculate interest with both sides of my brain.'

'For Harland, the only game in town is the bulls versus the bears...'

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

'Need I tell you the name of the game?'

'Now this is my kind of green!'

U.S. Credit Rating

'And this is my strategic money reserve.'

Bank cashier sits near sign: 'Please do not ask for credit, as refusal often offends'.

"Tax evasion is like a cancer, it's growing exponentially!"

'Howard's doing things he's always wanted to with his redundancy money.'

'I used to work for the Treasury Department, but there's no future in economic forecasts.'

Woman at a desk with in out boxes marked Market Up Market Down.

Early Attempt at Quantitative Easing.

"I didn't get where I am by trying to please."

Wealth Juggler.

"This is bad work, Edwards! Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!"

'If we're going to have a banking relationship, you'll have to trust me more than this.'

"Do you swear to calm the jittery financial markets, all the jittery financial markets and nothing but the jittery financial markets, so help you God?"

'Please remember, it's not a lie if it turns a profit.'