Recession Observer Prints

'Money is a bit tight at the moment, so instead of cash we wondered whether you'd settle for 20% more meaningless protestations of how much we value you?'

"One day son, all this will be yours."

Sen. Krupt. I don't tell constituents that we're fueling inflation. I say we're protecting consumers and thanks to us they won't have to worry about buying any cheap stuff.

GAS PRICES AT PUMP

'Taxes are going up, but that's no excuse to earn less, Mr. Syms.'

'Do you want to tell them their department is being downsized again, or should I?'

'We're living in a round hole economy.'

'Bit of a staffing problem, Boss. We haven't got any left.'

Grand. Baby Grand. Toddler Grand. Teen Grand.

"And we will absolutely start lending again as soon as we finish building our debtors' prison."

Warning that Inflationary Policies Could Lead to Crash on Wall St

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

'Remember, an economic boom is usually followed by an economic kaboom,'

'Crisis'

Republicans and Democrats debate while the US economy drowns.

'Stocks dropped on the news that governments can fool some people come of the time,but not all the people all of the time.'

Economy.

Cigars for the Upcoming Bear Market

Statue of Liberty and the Financial Crisis

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

'If nobody has any money, where did it all go?'

"Victims of out-sorcery."

'All right, gentlemen, this is the current picture of our growth industry!'

'I've been sent by the board to ask if you'd be willing to cut your symbolic one dollar a year salary to fifty cents.'

'Grandpa, what was manufacturing?'

Highschool sign.

'In the economy, money is the lure.'

'You can't fire me! I'm too big to fail!'

"This just in! Due to downsizing, the mega-merger of Consolidated Industries and Humungous Corporation has been changed to a simple bankruptcy."

' Oh no! I'm being repossessed! '

Obama's Financial Reform Pill: I hope they won't need a glass of water.

V-O Day

'Why don't you start a small business with a loan from a bank?'

Geezernomics - Crash of 1929.