World Economic Outlook

One Day A Tourist Comes To The Only Hotel In A Debt Ridden Town. Lays A $100 Note On The Table & Goes To Inspect The Rooms.

Hotel Owner Takes The Note & Rushes To Pay His Debt To The Butcher.

Butcher Runs To Pay The Pig Farmer. Pig Farmer Runs To Pay The Feed Supplier.

Supplier Runs To Pay The Prostitute, Who In These Hard Times Gave Her Services On Credit.

Hooker Then Runs To Pay Off Her Debt To The Hotel Owner For The Rooms She Rented For Her Clients.

Hotel Owner Then Lays The $100 Note Back On The Counter.

The Tourist Comes Down, Takes His Money & Leaves As He Did Not Like The Rooms.

No One Earned Anything. But The Town Is Now Without Debt & Looks To The Future With A Lot Of Optimism.

And That Is How The World Is Doing Business Today.

Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock. The brunette balances their checkbook, then takes their last $600 dollars out west to another ranch where a man has a prize bull for sale.
Upon leaving, she tells her sister, “When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I’ll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.”
The brunette arrives at the man’s ranch, inspects the bull, and decides she does want to buy it. The man tells her that he can sell it for $599, no less. After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news.
She walks into the telegraph office, and says, “I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I’ve bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home.”
The telegraph operator explains that he’ll be glad to help her, then adds, “It’s just 99 cents a word.”
Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She realizes that she’ll only be able to send her sister one word.
After thinking for a few minutes, she nods, and says, “I want you to send her the word, ‘comfortable.’”
The telegraph operator shakes his head. “How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her the word, ‘comfortable’?”
The brunette explains, “My sister’s blonde. She’ll read it very slow.”