Modern Economy Thinker Mugs

Home for the Holidays

"This is not permanent...we'll be back as soon as things start to look up."

'Please remember that these figures could be off as much as two dollars.'

'And remember to emphasize we're giving them the opportunity to find a better job.'

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

"Gentlemen, we're missing a great opportunity by not hitching this company to the current tailspin."

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

"Eat not of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Its sources have yet to be verified."

'It's good to be here. We're having economic problems where we come from.'

"At $4 a dozen, it's hard to balance a career and a family."

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

G7 Tax Multinational Companies

"I'm as progressive as they come, except for my money. No one touches my money."

"I'd like to TikTok your offer and get comments before saying yes or no."

"I liked the fee-fi-fo-fum part, but I found the rest of his speech racist and repellent."

US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

'Don't worry about the thumb sucking...she'll be texting with it soon enough.'

"Father would never understand me investing in things called Google and Yahoo."

"Okay... how about some people are poverty rich but asset poor?"

Republicans and Democrats debate while the US economy drowns.

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

'Mixed day on Wall Street. Economic indicators were up, but executive bonuses were down.'

'Bad news on Wall Street. The entire stock market has been downgraded to a 'junk' classification.'

"Efficiency savings...protect front line services BLAH! BLAH! refocus on core objectives BLAH BLAH!"

'So, a bailout is like a Ponzi scheme for automakers?'

"Fellas, I invited Max here to give us a fresh, millennial take on how to get out of the inning."

What every man thinks to himself when he puts on a pink shirt.

"The good news is that profits are up 76%. . . The BAD news is that costs are up 83%."

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

Recession

'How can they call it a shared sacrifice in this bad economy...when your pay cut was 10% and mine, 25%?!'

"This looks good, Jim, but we'd better run it by legal, Siri, and Alexa."

The hourglass figure of economic injustice.

"Since when did economists become sociologists?!"

'Profit in the garbage.'