Playful Economist Gifts

"We're trying to put the fun back into filing taxes."

"Can Billy come out and compete in the global economy?"

Cleaner looking at flow chart of Yoyo sales. The line of sales is going up and down.

"Jack, when we get down the hill, let's put the pail up for auction."

"What do you think I can get for it on the blackboard market?"

'So what if we're in the best preschool? How can we go anywhere in life if we don't yet have maxed out credit cards?'

Defining a recession

"I did it for the money."

Akme National Bank: Our Assets Can Whip Your Assets.

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

'Pretty strange term, market share, considering the whole object is not to.'

'Ho,ho,ho, but can you be more specific?'

As long as there are husbands, we'll get our's money's worth!

"Sorry, stock-market jitters."

"Actually, I used them as collateral for a loan."

'You raised the price of air to 50c!' 'Inflation.'

Chicken - "The Dow is falling...the dow is falling..."

Trickledown economics

Aliens - 'We heard stuff is cheap here.'

Office of economic forecasting.

Escaping Black Hole - '..But captain that's the pensions black hole there is no escape!'

Banker stepping into 'New image' in 'Savings and Loans' office

The average taxpayer will ultimately embrace the auto industry bailout. Hell, we sold em all that useless undercoating for all these years!

'I suppose if we had some money we could buy sand from each other.'

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

'Oh dear. I seem to have put the decimal point in the wrong place again.'

"The usual? Or will you be having our 'stimulus package'?"

'It's the NEW Chinese Stock Market Report.'

'We buy and sell them.'

'I feel I owe a lot to my country.' - 'So, you haven't paid your income tax again.'

'What can we do to reduce our spending?'

"Harold finds painting very therapeutic."

Investments: Still Open to New Investors - 'A fool & his money fund.'

Government Handouts.

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."