Trade Tales Fan Pillows

'I believe honesty is the best policy.'

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

Thomas Hardy

"Tonight I'm getting together with pals to sit around and croak."

TPP - Investor State Dispute Settlement

"Barnes is morphing into some kind of strange creature. I warned him about eating out of the vending machines."

'Enter, 'The Globoracy'.'

"There she be, lads, the special economic zone!"

'Globalsiation risky? How d'you mean?'

It's a deal. You give me five analysts, three pundits, seven technicians and a soothsayer. I give you six experts, five professors, four consultants and a prognosticator.

Early attempts at standardising currency.

Conservative Leadership Renounces Protectionism

Cuba united against blocking off the country

Subway Thrillers

Beauty and the Beast

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Coffee

The hare and the tortoise - the rematch.

"You do something about Human Rights and trade or...or....or..."

'Take Gerald a cup of punch or something, I think he's feeling left out.'

'It's a growth industry' (tulips from Amsterdam).

A graph falling off the chart and through the floor.

'I couldn't sleep so I decided to do some on-line trading.'

TTIP

HM Customs and Excise - 'One of the few things you can see from space is the great wall of Chinese imports.'

"I can build it. My price is 300 oxen and a flock of sheep. A roof would be 250 sheep extra."

'Go to Hell'

Circus trousers

'The Moving Finger Writes; And, Having Writ, Moves On To A Three Week, Twenty City Book Tour.'

"Have you tried unplugging and plugging it back in?"

The first stock exchange - 'It's agreed then, one of my Longhorns for one of your holsteins.'

Helms Burton Title III

'I'm outta here.'

"It's not 'Kafkaesque,' it's equal opportunity."

According to this tabloid article, two guys who today are a basketabll referee and a politician, were friends as kids with a business selling seashells. The referee says that one sunny day while under an umbrella searching in the muck for shells they found a bunch of slimy, loose change. Or as the tabloid puts it "Whistleblower reveals pol's shady past with dirty money and a shell company!"

'Yes, the owners are giraffes...Did I forget to mention it?...'