Crisis Humor

In these financial times, we MUST have a sense of humor. My friends in Russia are masters at humor amid dark and dangerous times. These have appeared recently in Russian newspapers:

If you had invested $1,000 in Delta Airlines a year ago, you would have $49 today; $1,000 in AIG a year ago, $33 today; in Fannie Mae, only $2.50 today. But, if instead you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer a year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have received $214. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called a 401-keg.
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The wife of a banker decides to surprise her husband and stop by his work to see him. She gets there and sees his secretary sitting on his lap. Without blinking, her husband begins to dictate: "In conclusion, I must affirm, gentlemen, that even in the midst of this financial crisis, one chair for two people in my office is not enough!"
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A spring day in 2010, 6 a.m. Two street sweepers meet outside. One looks fixedly at the other.

"You look so familiar!"

"I think I've seen you before too ... which bank did you work at?"
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Since American medicine couldn't stop the fattening of the nation, the American economy came to help out.
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The economic situation has become so bad lately that women are now marrying for love.