Quippy Economist Mugs

'The dollar and I seem to be weakening at the same rate!'

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

"You can't compare apples and oranges because oranges have longer legs."

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

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

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

'This financial report is frightening. Who wrote it, Stephen King?"

Bookshop: Unpopular Economics

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

"While we're on the subject of earnings, does anyone have a clever metaphor using the word, 'toilet'?"

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

"The fish - will it be the market price at the time of ordering, the time of eating or the time of paying?"

"No, it hasn't, but when the sky does fall your investments are going to do very, very, well.''

"Good to see they're trying to keep the high street vibe."

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!'

A few Halloween costume ideas.

'We buy and sell them.'

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.'

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

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

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

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

'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'?"

A Double-Dip Recession with Sprinkles

'What can we do to reduce our spending?'

Government Handouts.

'Consumer confidence is up.. in the 'Money in the mattress' sector.'

'Someday, Son, all of this will be yo....!'

'Great! Thanks to the damn mortage crisis, we've got to live in a neighbourhood now where we wake up with yellow feet every second morning...'

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