Fiscal Fantasist Pillows

"Do me a favor, Harlow. When you greet me, stop saying 'Hello, big spender!'"

"To summarize the year: we were taken over, we took over, we were taken over and we took over."

Three businessmen using a pulley system to change a graph

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

"Seriously, do you expect us to believe you put on 143 feet a day in business travel?"

Exchange Rate Going Down the Plughole

Benefit mistakes cost one billion a year. Well in our defence we did get a lot of the numbers correct,they just weren't in the right order.

"I'm at that awkward stage between credit card payments and alimony payments."

Currency Stimulus.

It's 10 P.M. does anyone know what 'sequestration' means?

Congressional Budget Committee: Benefactor...Victim

"Tell me the fairytale about the economy."

Fiscal cliff

What is possible and what is probable.

"Financial Adviser advises client 'I advise you that you're broke'."

'Sorry, you must have the wrong person, I don't pay income tax.'

EU Budget: '5% more and you're home free!'

Tax Cuts Water the Economy.

'Should the U.S. motto be, 'In for a buck, in for a trillion'?'

"It's the government, they've spent all our taxes and want to know if we can send them some more."

'It's your debt to society.'

"Actually we're one of the few businesses that enjoy VAT visits."

"And after the prime rate declined by half a point, the Dow rose by thirty-two, guess what happened to Goose and Fox?"

Pork barrel projects vs Keynesian economics.

Fiscal Cliff Dwellers.

Euro crisis bailout.

We'll be paying for his recovery for generations.

Collapse of 'Corner Men'

I spent it all under the silly notion that it was all mine.

Debt Ceiling and False Ceiling.

Cost of Terror.

"At last, a country that welcomes poor refugees like me..."

The Pessimist, the Optimist and the Obamamist.

'...I also do some work for the tax department.'

The world enters a global financial recession.