Retro Economist Gifts

'Get out there and keep your job!'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'What's with the overnight bag, Orville?'

Economy - USA.

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

The burden of carrying the Euro.

"You will be visited by three ghosts - the Ghost of Porfolios Past, The Ghost of Present Positions and the Ghost of Commodities Future."

Tourist

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

'Voodoo economics was bad enough, but this voodoo foreign policy....'

'...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible!'

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

Bank of Cyprus-sia

'The people who've been running our economy say we don't have to worry about global warming.'

"Italy's national debt runs into trillions. How do you repossess a country?"

More Money for Greece.

1998: A Look Back

"Grog understand supply and demand."

Spain Bleeding Under the German Controlled Euro.

The high tech crash of the early 2000s...and the depression that followed.

"Dad hasn't been the same since he went back to school."

'I was a multi-millionaire back when it meant something.'

Golden Oldies: "Hey! Remember this great chart from the nineties?"

Inflation wave

'Greenspan was back for a guest appearance. He didn't say it's gonna be a bear market. He said it's a beware market!'

Easy street ends.

Evolution to Debt.

"You know what they say: if you can remember the Sixties then talk about them endlessly on BBC Four documentaries."

'These fortune cookies are outdated. They quote Greenspan instead of Bernanke.'

Spain-Italy-Debt-Interest rates

"Speaking only for myself, the unexamined life was a total gas!"

"I loved the good old days, …. 'better dead than red'."

The Sinking of the S.S. Great Britain