Macroeconomic Enthusiasts Gifts

A rising tide that lifts all boats isn't much good when your sail is full of holes!

"Tariffs love me...tariffs love me not..."

"DeepSeek" "Stargate"

Entering the Business Community: Assets/Liabilities

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Do you promise to love, honour and contribute to the gross national product?"

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

"We were able to retire 6 years early by canceling cable & eliminating anything fun."

"I'm sorry, but my costs were way out of control."

Annual profits,

'...And here we have the 'Laugher Curve.''

'The good news is, we did as well as expected last quarter. The bad news is, we didn't expect to do too well.'

"O.K. he's a billionaire, but how much of it is in cash?"

Thanks to the financial business scientists know it for sure now - Black Holes really exist!

G7 Summit Concern

"Basically, your new job here at the Treasury Department implementing the bailout is simple, Grayson, just grab and armful of money and run..."

'It's okay. We'll just push our retirement plan back a bit.'

'He's downgrading the credit agencies.'

"It's time to retire the word 'profit'."

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

Fiscal cliff - US dollar falling over the edge.

Economy - USA.

Slipping and sliding down the slope...

Crony Capitalism (Always Follow the Money Trail)

I'm over-educated and under-employed. That's why there's no MIDDLE class anymore.

'The Great Depression? Didn't they have Prozac then?'

The Greek Trampoline

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

"For details on the bear market, here's a bear..."

'This is where I hang out until bullishness makes a comeback.'

'Based on your travels, what would you say is the greatest potential downside, if any, to investing in the Upper Amazon?'

'It's cheaper than gas.'

"Maybe the unseen hand of the market will change the diaper."

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"I don't like the look of this."