International Trade Observer Prints

'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.'

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

"International trade"

Supermarket Merge

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

"He downgraded Apple."

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

Business isn't booming.

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

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

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

Thin Ice

Made redundant from Honda please help

Suez Canal Curse

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

Wall Street Down

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

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

Beijing's international Olympic torch flame run.

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."

Euro crisis.

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

"Fake."

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

'Stocks took a dive when a top economist was overheard saying 'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.''