Financial Strategy Geek Gifts

'Okay - imagine you're a bailiff coming at me with a repossession order.'

The day the stock market went UP.

Mario Draghi

"Our light bill is astronomical living next to a black hole."

"Gentlemen, we're missing a great opportunity by not hitching this company to the current tailspin."

'Greek debt was downgraded for the 11th time this week, by S&P, to P.O.S. Negative Infinity, meaning it's safer to eat uranium, than own Greek debt.'

'Now that we've defined 'happy deficits' let's try it out on the stockholders.'

Thanks to the financial business scientists know it for sure now - Black Holes really exist!

"... And to our friends in the Liberal Democratic party I award thirty pieces of silver."

The Shrinking Dollar.

"Well, either you're hopelessly optimistic or hopelessly short-sighted."

'He's refusing to die as a protest against Inheritance Tax.'

Slipping and sliding down the slope...

'For an explanation of the financial terms of this loan, please enroll in a continuing-education economics class at your local community college.'

'Are we broke yet?'

"Ahh... don't you just LOVE that new, re-organized-under-bankruptcy-protection smell?"

'You shouldn't have taken that personal pension.' 'You shouldn't have taken that endowment mortgage.' 'When do you get your free tv license?' Job's comforters, today.

"Well, Comstock, still regret putting our profits back into research?"

"At these tuition prices an acceptance letter is pretty much a denial."

"I just..."

'The recession is over, again.'

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

'Make them a four billion dollar takeover offer, but don't cause a fuss.'

"People are looking for stability in pension arrangements..."

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

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

"It's going to require a great deal of money."

"You will be visited by three ghosts - the Ghost of Porfolios Past, The Ghost of Present Positions and the Ghost of Commodities Future."

'We're a non-profit organisation. We didn't plan it that way, but that's how it worked out.'

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

"One question, what's a share option?"

"Jerry's blood pressure jumped to a six month high on News of the dollar's weakness."

'The market shifted on me.'

'Looks like we'll have to break into the piggy bank to find our endowment funding.'

I've found a loophole in your loophole