14 economic Valentines that will make you laugh

Get into the spirit of Valentine’s Day in a way only a financial professional or pun aficionado could with these economics mash notes.

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Creator Liz Fosslien takes graphs illustrating well-known economic concepts or indicators, such as the S&P index, or marginal returns, and combines them with sentiments usually found on sugary heart candy.

“I don’t think you’re great, I think you’re fantastic, for what you’re supplying, my demand’s inelastic,” one note boasts.

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“Credit default swap spreads: our risk of default is zero,” another note says.

Fosslien, who was an associate analyst at Leo Burnett, and is working towards a graduate business degree at Stanford, says one reader once emailed to say her graphs helped land a date.

For the other 12 notes, read here.

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