International Trade Observer Pillows

'Well, to be fair about it, the Chinese never PROMISED that they wouldn't adopt free market reforms.'

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

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

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

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

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

'Yes, we have a very diversified economy around here.'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

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

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

"He downgraded Apple."

"International trade"

Business isn't booming.

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

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

Thin Ice

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

"It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your 401k is?"

Wall Street Down

"Remember the old days, when cat's' used to bounce?"

Beijing's international Olympic torch flame run.

'The World Trade Organization declared him a barely-tolerated nation.'

Big oil.

WTO-Free Traitor.

Temporarily closed to rethink our concept.

"...and I can assure you that our price increases will be more competitive than those of other providers."

'Stop complaining. We can't afford business class any more.'

Euro crisis.

"Fake."

'Does that mean things are getting better or worse?'

Oil on canvas/oil in barrel.