Economists Cartoons

"Start the economy."

Equality, Fraternity, Liquidity

"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell."

"With your permission, gentlemen, I'd like to offer a kind word on behalf of John Maynard Keynes."

"Religion is the opium of the people, Fred."

"We're going to have a post-flood economy to deal with."

"And please let Alan Greenspan accept the things he cannot change, give him the courage to change the things he can and the wisdom to know the difference."

"It's good to get hammered by something other than the economy."

"How do you stay so calm about the stock market?"

"Remember the good old days when all the economy needed was a little fine-tuning?"

"Well, I'm sure that Alan Greenspan's mother is very proud."

Perestroika

"Oh, I'm just riding out the cycle."

"Haven't I seen you on 'Adam Smith's Money World'?"

"It's Alan Greenspan - he thinks we're moving too fast."

A man and a woman sit on a seesaw looking at a graph.

"I approve of the way he's mishandling the economy."

"I used to do just medicine, but lately I've been moving into economics."

"This one is very popular one. Ben Bernanke repeating over and over, 'the economy is going to be okay'."

"I find you can tell a lot about an economy just by looking at peoples' shoes."

Misleading Economic Indicators

"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!"

"John Stuart Mill taught that the happiness of the individual is paramount. He didn't name names, but I suspect that you and I are the sort of individual he had in mind."

"I hear we're all getting valentines from Lawrence Summers."

"You're kidding! I used to be an economist myself!"