Junior Economist Gifts

'How will all this fiscal cliff and debt ceiling stuff affect my allowance?'

"What interest does a piggy bank pay?"

'You get an allowance? At my house, I'm an unpaid intern.'

'How much allowance do you get?'

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

'I know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about the bears and the bulls.'

'But Dad, all the other kids get a roth IRA as part of their allowance package.'

"May I skip the usual Show & Tell and try to hustle some merch?"

"Apparently, when the tide came in, a lot of castles went bust."

"I'll go to my room and do my homework, but I want time and a half."

'I've been coming to Kindergarten every day for two weeks!-- When do I get paid?'

"So much for password protected."

'In the future, if we're a little late with your allowance, don't just automatically turn it over to a collection agency.'

'All I know is when it's the 'birds and bees' it's about sex; and when it's the 'bulls and bears' it's about money.'

'I've crunched the numbers and you can afford to increase my allowance by 15.5%.'

"We've decided to diversify our funds on some candy!"

"The treasury has hacked into his computer and asked for ideas to solve the deficit"

'I can't afford to absorb the overhead anymore!'

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I'd like to request a transfer to a household offering a higher allowance and fewer choices.

'...All profits are local.'

"I think you should provide a 401(k) with my allowance."

'I'm worth more than $3,000 as a federal income tax exemption. So how about a raise in my allowance?'

"I used to get toys as birthday gifts but now that I'm in pre-school, all I get is money for my college fund."

"My assets consist of a piggy bank, 2 teeth for the tooth fairy, and whatever change I find in the living room sofa."

"When do you think the upturn in the economy will have an input in my allowance?"

"I want an eponymous retail empire when I grow up, Greg. What do you want?"

'I got that, Ms. Rafferty... now can we get on to student loans?'

'9K a year!? It's an outrage! At my level of attendance that's 3K per lecture!'

"Would you like a glass too? They're five bucks."

"Why do I need more allowance? Because if you cut me off at 21, these are my prime spending years!"

'I already know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about investing my allowance for capital appreciation.'

'Sixty percent of my income is from newspaper delivery, 20% from odd jobs, and 20% from allowance.'

'This isn't the dollar I deposited!'

"My son's a commonwealth - I give him money to be independent."