Mortgage Maverick Mugs

I'm afraid your loan will be stuck in underwriting until you've each had a full panic attack.'

'We have a cash flow problem too. Our problem is that your mortgage payments aren't flowing our way.'

"We must be paying too much for our mortgage - the bank just named us 'Borrowers of the Month."

'I went in to get my mortgage renewed. I said: 'Make it for eight months and four days!'. . . Am I only the one who thinks the world ends in December?'

'Well, our house was worth £350k when the bank repossessed it.'

'I like my women like I like my mortgages; flexible & easily spread over many years.'

Freddie Mac and Fannie May takeover

'The financial crisis is really affecting young people.'

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

It's okay Mom! As a broker, I'm under supervision of the SEC!

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

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

We need to put more money into Lithuanian sardine futures...I think that warrants bonuses all around!

Dow Jones drop

His temperature appears to rise and fall with the FT index

"Apparently over 50% of people never look at their pension plans!"

'The market shifted on me.'

Vulture sitting over a plummeting graph.

"Which way up do you want it?"

The Contrarian funds

'What do you mean your telling me, 'stash it under the bed' is your best advice in the current financial climate?'

The two faces of capitalism.

(Stocks) (Bonds) (Off Wall St.)

Got out of the market too soon; got back in too late.

"Looks like the high tech shares have taken another fall."

'The Karma of the marketplace is about to overwhelm the Dogma of policy making,'

"Our hobby is finding old, run-down Victorian houses and levelling them."

Wall Street lights the American Dream on fire while citizens try to burn Wall Street.

Euro parachute is not keeping Europe aloft.

"Today on Wall Street, yesterday's panic selling was replaced by panic buying."

'While your word is your bond, at this point it's a junk bond.'

"What do you mean, the market rallied?"

10 Days Without an Interest Rate Change

"I invested in Chinese stocks just because of my ironic sense of humor - if it goes wrong, I can't even afford a bowl of Chop Suey!"

'Uh-oh.'