Gig Economy Observer Gifts

"How long have you been working for Uber?"

"It's not easy in the gig economy. My buddy and I only have decent jobs once a whole year."

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

Grand. Baby Grand. Toddler Grand. Teen Grand.

"Yeah, I'm moonlighting. It's a living."

Loan Alley

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

"Yes, we have a retirement plan. It's called a layoff."

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.'

"I'm pretty sure my self-driving car is moonlighting for Uber behind my back."

"Victims of out-sorcery."

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

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

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'Get out there and keep your job!'

"I needed a gig to tide me over between baby booms."

"He downgraded Apple."

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

V-O Day

'You can earn more money, but you'll need to take a second job.'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

Euro against the Dollar.

Supermarket Merge

Exchange Rate.

'Would you please wipe away this difference?'

'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.'

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

Working one day a year doesn't pay the bills