Global Economics Explorer Pillows

Stock Market Downturn

"Another week another dollar, Jenkins"

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

"Welcome to the bank - you'll start at the bottom."

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

Great Chinese Dynasties

Today we'll see some misused or misunderstood financial and economic terms. It's said inflation can hurt the economy. But it's absolutely in the tire business. I bought this warm puffy jacket with cash. A down payment. We like beer and coffee. Our most valuable liquid assets. In a monopoly breakup, the race car would to go one person and the dog to another. And when I become either a buyer or a seller. He's shorting the market!

A Q&A with President Obama over jobs

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

The economy.

'Today the stock market was moribund, as growth equities sputtered and bonds dipped due to the inverted yield curve. I'd translate that into layman's terms...but they don't pay me enough.'

'You know the economy's in trouble when the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans only has 350 names on it.'

Loan Alley

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

Made in China

World Economic Crisis.

'You have to reconcile your gross habits with your net income.'

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

Economy

Russia Money Laundering

'well of course I'm giving your portfolio the attention it deserves, I'm even wearing a black armband!'

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

Manufacturing will take place in China...So what role does Europe have?...you borrow money to be the customer

'Based on your travels, what would you say is the greatest potential downside, if any, to investing in the Upper Amazon?'

"This is the World Bank? Somehow, I had pictured it differently."

"It's simple supply and demand. The shorter the supply, the more money we demand."

Jumping Wall Street.

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

"It's swings and roundabouts – one goes up the other goes down."

"We may have to rob from the rich AND the poor."

Bookstore. The Stock Market for Dummies. It's either an instructional guide or a history of recent economics.

'Stocks rose on the rumor that the market is mostly rumor-driven.'

"Everything's gone up."