Undercover Economist Mugs

My cheapskate muse is dead. Great. I woke up yesterday and realized it's been months since I've had an idea for cheating the customers. Everything I'm coming up with is clich

"If you're rich, I have a great investment for you. If you're poor, why are we talking?"

"Experience with repackaged debt? Oh, sure. Lots."

"The good news is you’re the only one we’re not firing ... the bad news is you’re the only one to run the department."

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

Phrenology bust with sections for different currencies.

"Welcome to the bank - you'll start at the bottom."

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

The economy.

'You know the economy's in trouble when the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans only has 350 names on it.'

'You have to reconcile your gross habits with your net income.'

"We'd better watch Cranston. He looks like a whistleblower."

Economy

'well of course I'm giving your portfolio the attention it deserves, I'm even wearing a black armband!'

Stock market Bull & Bear financial whirlwind.

"I got all 'Cs', but I call that an 'A' report card...'A' for 'Average.'"

"It's simple supply and demand. The shorter the supply, the more money we demand."

"Everything's gone up."

Woman at a desk with in out boxes marked Market Up Market Down.

"It's swings and roundabouts – one goes up the other goes down."

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

'Greenspan said today the alert staus for the possible interest rate has been reduced from orange to yellow.'

Bookstore. The Stock Market for Dummies. It's either an instructional guide or a history of recent economics.

Bookshop: Unpopular Economics

Wealth Juggler.

I work for a not for profit business. Mind you, two years ago it was a 'for profit' business.

Economy.

"If you really must know, Junior, yes, you were a market correction."

'All we can do is remind the stockholders that money isn't everything.'

Long and Short term investments.

Statue of Liberty and the Financial Crisis

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

'We were in the right place at the right time but, unfortunately, we were in the wrong time zone.'

'In a Washington economic summit, a panel of three economists offered two dozen opinions about the direction of global economics.'