Financial Observer Gifts

'Has the recession effected us - do you mean the one that's ending or the one that's about to start?'

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

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

'Uh - oh... this looks like an unfriendly takeover!'

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

'As I see it, our choices are 'no' and 'hell no'.'

"My tweet about not caring about what is trending is now trending."

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

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

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

Big Brother watching you watch Big Brother

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

'Yes, we have a very diversified economy around here.'

Highschool sign.

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

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

'Get out there and keep your job!'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

'You wouldn't threaten your bank manager...er...maybe...'

Exchange Rate.

The Red Carpet

V-O Day

"He downgraded Apple."

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

Supermarket Merge

'racism is the new black.'

Euro against the Dollar.

'Commerical real estates' man excited by peak in sleeping 'Rental rates' monitor

Stock Market Roller-coaster.

Business isn't booming.

'Oh, just sitting around, waiting for the next computer generated trading bubble to burst, sending the market into death spiral.'