Global Trade Humorist Pillows

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Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

Thrift: have your arms and legs amputated, use a pillow for a bed!

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

'Pretty strange term, market share, considering the whole object is not to.'

'This year, executive bonuses are tied to performance. You owe us $50,000.'

"Tariffs"

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

'When you said he was very talented, I thought you meant in business.'

"No, it hasn't, but when the sky does fall your investments are going to do very, very, well.''

'Nonsense, Harry, it's my treat. I'm filing for bankruptcy tomorrow.'

Trickledown economics

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

'I move we go on record for fewer imports here and more imports there!'

Office of economic forecasting.

Escaping Black Hole - '..But captain that's the pensions black hole there is no escape!'

'Oh dear. I seem to have put the decimal point in the wrong place again.'

'It's the NEW Chinese Stock Market Report.'

'We buy and sell them.'

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

"This town ain't big enough for the both of us and, even if it was, I doubt either of us could afford to buy a place here given the current sellers' market."

'Hey! This box of 'made in America' stickers has a sticker on it that says 'made in Taiwan'.'

The Trans Pacific Partnership! Negotiated in Secret! No input from labor, consumer, or environmental organizations...

A day at the UN.

Grand Opening and Closing Down Sale simultaneously occurring.

'Consumer confidence is up.. in the 'Money in the mattress' sector.'

'Someday, Son, all of this will be yo....!'

Government Handouts.

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."

'Great! Thanks to the damn mortage crisis, we've got to live in a neighbourhood now where we wake up with yellow feet every second morning...'

The Two Economies

Where has he been so long?

Thanks to his stocks, Bob now lives in the middle of a great green garden outside the crowded city.

US dependence on China