The Curious Economist Mugs

"I see a vague figure of someone groping...groping...groping..Yes, yes, it's coming in more clearly now! It seems to be—yes, it is a man! The man has a briefcase! And some papers! The man is an economist!"

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

Beyond the known and the unknown.

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

Bookshop: Unpopular Economics

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

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

"I've found that when money starts talking, you can't shut 'er up!"

'For the economy to improve we're counting on a 'trickle down' from the super-wealthy to the wealthy.'

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

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

"We're making progress."

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

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

"...I want to find out whether there's any truth in the belief that money can't buy happiness."

'What can we do to reduce our spending?'

"Son, it's about time I told you the facts of life, the richest 1% own half the world's wealth."

'I'm an economist, but I try not to take myself too seriously.'

'Sorry, lad, but I lost all me gold during the recession. All I can give ya is a buck thirty in change!'

Kid's Lemonade Stand Has A High Pricing Policy

"...Or we could give to the rich, and it would just trickle down to the poor."

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

"With expenses like ingredients, supplies, marketing, packaging, handling and payment processing, a cup of lemonade costs $50."

'If we let this happen, soon we'll be swamped in chain stores.'

"You call it 'faith in God' when your faith is really in the humans who interpret what other humans wrote. Which was edited, revised, and translated by other humans. And was originally based on stories other humans orally passed from one generation of humans to the next, about events yet other humans claimed to have witnessed thousands of years ago."

Akme National Bank: Our Assets Can Whip Your Assets.

'I doubled my money! The bank dude gave me 20 50-cent-coins for lousy ten one-euro-coins!'

'And for those of you with weird brains, here is the financial news...'

Stocks were up today on news that most of us have no @#%^ clue why stocks go up or down.

More toxic assets.

Cave Men - Early Business Failures.

'My dad showed me how to make awesome paper airplanes out of corporate bonds.'

'Government economists said today's stock market drop was due to 'normal gravitational forces'.'

'Today, a downturn in 'social conscience' stocks on news that 'nice guys finish last'.'

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