Interest Calculator Mugs

"I’ve combined all your outstanding debt into what we here in the banking business like to call a honkin’ big loan."

'According to this book, the casino has a slight edge in this game.'

'I think I must be ambidextrous. I can calculate interest with both sides of my brain.'

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

"The interest rate can't go any lower, so if necessary, we'll have to go back to pounds of flesh."

People, please listen. I'm talkin 'bout the income gap. The top one percent of Americans get one third of the nation's income, over double what they got in 1980. One-third. The income for the top 0.01% is 196 times the bottom 90%. Your wages have stagnated and the super-duper rich have gotten super-duper richer! How can you possibly swallow your coffee? Because you're making me do math before noon!

'We can mortgage your future for a very attractive low interest rate.'

'Of course we have to learn decimals. How else will we be able to compare bank interest rates.'

Business Meeting

-Psst! Back me in the 4:30! -Oh! -Surprised I can talk, huh? -No, surprised you think you can win!

"And please let Alan Greenspan accept the things he cannot change, give him the courage to change the things he can and the wisdom to know the difference."

"Don't forget — it's good to give, but even better to get back."

Bank. I'm getting zero percent on my savings! We've reached the point of no return.

'My accounts aren't insured, but it's the risk I take for higher interest rates.'

Devil-may-care loans.

"I'm here to pay off the last loan installment!"

Economists generally agree that consumers don't trust products that cost too little. If an item is too inexpensive, it seems cheap. A higher cost connotes quality. Price hike! Beware the rabid capitalist bearing economic theory.

The End of Economic Stimulus is Near!

'I'd think that after a $800 billion bailout, you could do better than 1.2% for 11 months.'

Bankers waking up from cryo-sleep to explain the Fed's interest rate hike to you.

What are the chances?

"I don't know a damn thing about monetary policy,but I know what I like."

"If a higher interest rate is a sign of a stronger economy, you must think I'm golden."

Excess Baggage: Sometimes, your plane ticket is the least expensive part of the trip.

"We can mortgage your future for a very attractive low interest rate."

'We strongly recommend you buy the service plan.'

'What's your not-quite-so prime rate?'

"No point buying our ticket here - the odds of them selling another big winner are ridiculous."

'What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.'

"What did you get for Christmas?"

"Does it say what we use for money?"

'Which carries a more favorable interest rate, an auto loan or a home improvement loan? My mobile home needs a new transmission.'

Eighty, eighty five, ninety, ninety five and five makes a pound.

'You'll find that math gets easier as you learn how to use a calculator.'

"Today's test question: If Joe Jones accumulates $16,000 student loan debt in college, then gets a job earning $30,000 a ywar, in how many years would he pay off his loan debt?"