Enron Scandal Effects

Q: Why has the Enron scandal been so hard on ESL teachers?
A: Because they now have to explain to their students why "to LAY" is worse than "to F*CK"!

Business Talk

• The "think positive" leader tends to listen to his subordinate's premonitions only during the postmortems.
• The amount of flak received on any subject is inversely proportional to the subject's true value.
• The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
• The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.
• The best laid plans of mice and men are all filed away somewhere.
• The best laid plans of mice and men are usually equal.
• The best photos are generally attempted through the lens cap.
• The best way to lie is to tell the truth, carefully edited truth.
• The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
• The best way to realise your dreams is to wake up. 

Why study Economics?

Top reasons to study Economics

1. Economists are armed and dangerous: "Watch out for our invisible hands."
2. Economists can supply it on demand.
3. You can talk about money without every having to make any.
4. Mick Jagger and Arnold Schwarzenegger both studied economics and look how they turned out.
5. When you are in the unemployment line, at least you will know why you are there.
6. If you rearrange the letters in "ECONOMICS", you get "COMIC NOSE".
7. Although ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, in economics we get taught that reward is its own virtue.
8. When you get drunk, you can tell everyone that you are just researching the law of diminishing marginal utility.
9. When you call 1- 00-LUV-ECON and get Kandi Keynes, you will have something to talk about.