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Fun With Economics (Jokes and Humor)

Disclaimer:  Some of the links include off-color jokes or stories so if you are easily offended it is best to leave now.

 

 

 

 

Cartoons, Jokes and Quotes

 

Videos

Music

"Roll with the Flow" (My date with Keynes)

               This is a pretty amusing music video by Dorian Electra

                Here is the first one in the series about her love for Hayek

"Fear the Boom and Bust"

                Classic rap battle between Keynes and Hayek

                 Keynes Hayek Part II

Raise the Debt Ceiling

                  Debt ceiling rap. I have to admit this one made me laugh

Quantitative Easin'

                  A 1970s, Barry White-style ballad about central banking policy

Trade Leads to Tradeoffs

                   They say this rap was for a principles class project.  If so they should

                    get an A

Microeconomics Rap

                     Another class project.  Maybe I should make my students make a rap

Interviews and Fun

SNL - Don't Buy Stuff

                     Funny clip for those that need some financial advice

Daily Show 'Deficit Dragon'

                       I really like this video, cracks me up

Daily Show Interviews Greenspan

                       Greenspan talks inflation, the FED, and bubbles on the Daily Show

                        This interview is fun and interesting since it is from 2007.

Daily Show clip about Geithner

                        Everybody is struggling in this housing market.

Principles of economics, translated

                         Fun translation of economic principles by our resident economics

                          Comedian

Educational?

Video - Spending Gorilla

Video  - Debt car ride

Video - Crisis cartoon

Video - Inflation Monster

Video - Continental Illinois (Garrett Meier)

 
 

Cartoon - Underemployed

Cartoon - Debt Ceiling

Cartoon - Geithner and Taxes

Cartoons - Cartoons relating to the government bailout

 

 

Fun News Stories

Sexual Harassment and Popsicles

Why do tall people make more money?

The 2008 Tax Rebate in Perspective

The Economic Case for Promiscuity

Why People Believe Weird Things About Money

Minibar Economics

What if the Candidates Pandered to Economists?

 

 

Economics Jokes - Site 1 , Site 2 , Site 3

 

Money Origami - Very creative origami for your money

 

 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it."  Ronald Reagan

 

" The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place." Ben Bernanke, Current FED chairman

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 
 

 

   
       

 

 

 

 


Contact Information:
Dr. Mark Scanlan, Assistant Professor of Economics
McGee Business Bldg., Suite 392 Office P
Phone: (936) 468-1883

E-mail: scanlanm@sfasu.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Economics & Finance
Box 13009-SFA Station
Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3009


Last Updated: November 28, 2011
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