On the lighter side:

 

ECONOMICS – What they don’t teach you in Micro or Macro

 

TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You sell one and buy a bull.

The herd multiplies; the economy grows.

You retire on the income.

 

FRENCH ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You go on strike because you want three cows.

 

BRITISH ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

They are both mad cows.

 

ITALIAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You don’t know where they are.

You break for lunch.

 

GERMAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You re-engineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and can milk themselves.

 

SWISS ECONOMICS

You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.

You charge others for storing them.

 

JAPANESE ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You re-design them so they are 1/10th the size of an ordinary cow and produce 20 times the milk.

 

RUSSIAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You count them again and learn you have 5 cows.

You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.

You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.

You give up counting and drink more vodka.

 

CHINESE ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You have 300 people milking them.

You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone who reports the actual numbers.

 

IRANIAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You don’t know your economy.

You choose one as prime minister and the other as president.

 

AMERICAN ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.

You then profess surprise when the cow drops dead.

You put the blame on some nation with cows and declare that nation a threat to mankind.

You wage war to save the world and grab the cows.

 

 

 

SAUDI ECONOMICS

You have two cows.

You get foreign loans so you can hire foreign nationals to milk the cows.

You sell the milk to pay back the loans.

 

 

INDIAN ECONOMICS

You have two Cows.

You worship Them.

 

 

PAKISTANI ECONOMICS

You don’t have any cows.

You claim the Indian cows belong to you.

You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, Britain for warplanes, Italy for machines, Germany for technology, France for submarines, the Swiss for loans, Russia for drugs, Japan for equipment and the Arabs for oil.

You use all this to wrest the cows from India and then claim exploitation by the world.