Food Economics Observer Gifts

Production and Sales

Sen. Krupt. I don't tell constituents that we're fueling inflation. I say we're protecting consumers and thanks to us they won't have to worry about buying any cheap stuff.

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

Cat and mouse

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

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.

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

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

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

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

V-O Day

Euro against the Dollar.

Supermarket Merge

"He downgraded Apple."

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

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

Exchange Rate.

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

'Get out there and keep your job!'

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

Stock Market Roller-coaster.

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

Business isn't booming.

"Fellow M.B.A. graduates of the Class of '91—hey, what can I say?"

"I'd skip dessert. You'll be quicker on your feet."

"At Hooters I'd already have three compliments on my tie!"

"Our sales have slumped so much, we now have a couch for them."

"Isn't it comforting that even in our fast-moving times there are still things that remain as they were?"

'Today the Yuan rose against the pork belly, the chicken beak, the eel, the wanton, and the egg noodle.'

'George, are you responsible for chopping down this here World Economy?'

Stan believes in calling a spade a spade.