Amusement: For Your Amusement

For Your Amusement

Economists state forecasts to two places of decimals to prove they have a sense of humour.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
Will Rogers
Forecasting is like trying to drive a car blindfolded and trying to follow directions given by a person who is looking out of the back window.
Harold Macmillan
Saving is a very fine thing, especially if your parents have done it for you.
Winston Churchill
Gross Domestic Product = my mum's cooking.
Anon
Inflation means that your money won't buy as much today as it did when you didn't have any.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
It's too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
It's true hard work never killed anyone, but I figure why take a chance
Ronald Reagan
God created economists in order to make astrologers look credible.
If I owe the bank £100, I have a problem. If I owe the bank £100,000, the bank has a problem.
John Maynard Keynes
A recession is defined as a time when even those who have no intention of paying stop buying.
EMU - Economic and Monetary Union or even more unemployment?
Fog in the channel, Europe isolated.
Pre-war newspaper headline
A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there and pretty soon you're talking serious money.
Ronald Reagan