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Ethical investment illustration

July 28, 2023 by chrismadden

Ethical investment illustration
Ethical investment illustration

An illustration or cartoon about ethical investment.

The illustration shows a person putting a coin with a map of the world on it into a piggy bank.

The piggy bank symbolises investment and the coin symbolises the world.
Drawn: July 2022
Cartoon reference number: a952

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Filed Under: ANIMALS, Animals (wild or pets), Business, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, Other environment cartoons

Credit Suisse bank collapse cartoon

March 20, 2023 by chrismadden

Credit Suisse bank collapse cartoon

Cartoon about the collapse of Credit Suisse bank.

In March 2023 the Swiss bank Credit Suisse collapsed and was bought by USB, another giant Swiss bank.

Drawn: 20th March 2023
Cartoon reference number: a945

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

Investment bankers’ remuneration cartoon

July 24, 2022 by chrismadden

banker's salaries and bonuses cartoon

Investment bankers’ bonuses and pay

Investment banking humour

Cartoon showing a banking job interview.

The interviewer is asking “What is it that attracts you to a career in investment banking?”
A joke about the bonus culture in banking and the ethics of banking

Cartoon drawn: 2013
Cartoon reference number: a312c

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

The price of Covid-19 vaccine – Black Friday sales cartoon

November 24, 2020 by chrismadden

covid-19 vaccine black friday cartoon

Covid-19 vaccine Black Friday sales price cartoon.

A cartoon showing someone negotiating the price of Covid-19 vaccine, with the price specially reduced as a Black Friday deal.

The vaccines that are about to become available have been developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford/AstraZenica and Moderna.
Drawn: 23rd November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a869

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Filed Under: Business, Covid-19, ECONOMY, Health, Medical Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19

Covid effect on economy cartoon

November 5, 2020 by chrismadden

covid economy cartoon ship mine

Covid threat to economy cartoon.

The coronavirus as a sea mine threatening a ship.

The ship represents the economy.
A cartoon about the pandemic caused by the covid-19 virus.
Drawn: 5th November 2020
Cartoon reference number: a860

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY, Health, Medical, Politics Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19

The art market – art as a financial investment cartoon

December 21, 2019 by chrismadden

Modern art market cartoon

A cartoon about the investment in art.

The cartoon shows an investor studying the art market and buying and selling works of art on the basis of their financial value rather than their artistic value.

The caption reads: Sell Abstract Expressionism. Buy Concrete Conceptualism.
I made up the genre of concrete conceptualism, it being an oxymoron.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art022
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

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Filed Under: ART, Business, ECONOMY, Modern art

Art gallery funding cartoon

December 20, 2019 by chrismadden

Art gallery financial model cartoon

Art gallery funding cartoon.

The cartoon shows an art gallery that uses advertising on its gallery walls to generate income.

The cartoon shows visitors to an art gallery saying “It’s the new financial model for the gallery – every fourth image is an advert.”

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art020
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
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Filed Under: ART, Business, ECONOMY

Notre-Dame Fire Restoration Fund/Sackler boycott cartoon

April 17, 2019 by chrismadden

Notre Dame fire restoration fund cartoon

Notre-Dame fire restoration fund/Sackler boycott cartoon.
(Drawn on the night of the fire, before the actual donations controversy that followed.)

15 April 2019.
This is a cartoon that deliberately links two current news stories: the restoration of Notre-Dame cathedral following the devastating fire and the boycotting of funding from the Sackler family charitable trusts.
The cartoon was drawn on the evening of the fire, and predates the controversy about the donations from large businesses that developed in the following days.
The cartoon is primarily about the current controversy in some western societies concerning the assumed ethical standards of the donors who contribute funds to institutions such as art galleries and religious buildings.

The Sackler family are major benefactors to many institutions. Only a week ago I was in Westminster Abbey in London where I noticed their name on a recently restored stained glass window to which I assume they had contributed funding.
However, the Sackler family own Purdue Pharma, a company that produces the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is said to be addictive. Thus there are calls to boycott any charitable funding offered by the Sackler family.
Of course the Sackler family are far from being the only donors to charitable causes who may be involved in supposedly tainted money. It could possibly be argued that any organisation that had enough money to distribute in such lavish ways must have come about it by somewhat dubious means, depending on one’s standards.
Cartoon reference number: a769


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Filed Under: ECONOMY, Medical, Politics, Religion/Spirituality

Brexit anxiety as a displacement for global warming anxiety

January 24, 2019 by chrismadden

Brexit anxiety  as a displacement for climate change anxiety

Brexit and climate change cartoon

A cartoon about the way that the all-encompassing concentration on Brexit is preventing people from being concerned about climate change and global warming

This cartoon first appeared in Private Eye, January 2019.

Cartoon reference number: a768


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Filed Under: Climate Change cartoons, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, Politics Tagged With: Brexit

Cutbacks in science funding – cartoon

December 14, 2016 by chrismadden

Cutbacks in science funding - cartoon

A cartoon about science budgets and cutbacks in science funding.

This is an example of my cartoon strip published in Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry, round 2014 – 2015.
Cartoon reference number: a725

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Filed Under: ECONOMY, Other science cartoons, SCIENCE

Scientific research funding

December 14, 2016 by chrismadden

Chemistry cartoon - scientific research funding

A cartoon about the funding of scientific research.

A cartoon about a clash between scientific research and the vested interests of the funder of the research.

It’s also a cartoon about alchemy and the quest to turn base metal into gold.
This is an example of my cartoon strip published in Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry, round 2014 – 2015.

Here are more of my chemistry cartoons from Chemistry World magazine.

Cartoon reference number: a716

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY, Other science cartoons, SCIENCE

Panama tax haven, tax evasion and money laundering cartoon

April 9, 2016 by chrismadden

Panama money laundering cartoon

A cartoon about money laundering through Panama legal/financial firm Mossack Fonseca

A cartoon about money laundering leaks, tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens.
Cartoon reference number: a737

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

Panama tax haven Mossack Fonseca leaks cartoon

April 8, 2016 by chrismadden

Panama tax evasion cartoon

A cartoon about the Panama tax avoidance leaks from legal/financial firm Mossack Fonseca

 

A cartoon about tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens, Panama, money laundering, leaks.
Cartoon reference number: a735

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

The psychology of consumerism and special offers – cartoon

August 23, 2015 by chrismadden

cartoon - a misleading special offer in a supermarket

A joke showing people being deceived by a special offer in a shop.

The customers see a sign with the special offer of “Two for the price of Three’ and they automatically think that this is a good deal due to the way that the offer is framed (interpreting it in the same way as “Two for the price of three”).
A cartoon about consumerism,marketing, persuasion, selling, manipulation, misleading offers.

Drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: a697

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Filed Under: Consumerism, ECONOMY, Sociology

How to ignore inconvenient truths

June 25, 2015 by chrismadden

cartoon - television programme about tv manufacturing

A TV viewer wanting to ignore the evidence in a television programme as it would make him uncomfortable.

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A cartoon depicting a person ignoring an inconvenient truth. (The cartoon doesn’t actually imply that all televisions are manufactured in exploitative sweatshop conditions – the use of a tv in the cartoon is because the tv in the image is, ironically, the conduit for the information to be made available).

Original version drawn: 2009
Cartoon reference number: a693

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Filed Under: Consumerism, ECONOMY

Exploitation of factory workers in the developing world

June 25, 2015 by chrismadden

cartoon - toy factory workers being paid toy money

Factory workers in the developing world manufacturing consumer goods for the west, and being exploited.

The cartoon shows a worker in a toy factory being paid with toy money.
Factory workers in the developing world may actually be paid at a fare wage in terms of the local economy, however there is a complex dynamic of exploitation at work, involving working conditions, safety levels, working hours and more.
Cartoon drawn: 2002
Cartoon reference number: a692

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

Bankers’ salary and bonus cartoon

July 29, 2014 by chrismadden

banker's salaries and bonuses cartoon

Investment bankers’ bonuses and pay joke

Investment banking humour

Showing a banking job interview.

The interviewer is asking “What is it that attracts you to a career in investment banking?”
A cartoon about the bonus culture in banking and the ethics of banking

Cartoon drawn: 2013
Cartoon reference number: a312b

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

Bankers’ bonuses cartoon

July 28, 2014 by chrismadden

banking cartoon - bankers bonus

Cartoon about bankers’salaries

Illustrating the contempt felt by sections of the public for bankers and other workers in the financial sector who earn enormous salaries with even larger bonuses

The joke in the cartoon is the tautology or circularity in the justification by the banker of his high salary.

Ref: a667

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

Economics cartoon

May 30, 2014 by chrismadden

finance or economy cartoon

Economy cartoon

A cartoon about finance and economic matters, showing a graph with a banker, businessman or entrepreneur balancing on a unicycle on the graph. The wheel is a coin, symbolising money and financial issues.

Ref: a655

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

Bank computer malfunction cartoon

January 29, 2014 by chrismadden

bank computer malfunction cartoon

A joke about bank computer failures

A joke about the computer glitches that affect banking systems and other large organisations

The image shows a bank customer withdrawing money from a cashpoint (ATM) and tentacles coming out of the cashpoint to engulf her.
An onlooker is saying “Looks like another computer glitch!”
Cartoon about banking, I.T., Nat West, RBS computer glitch, banking computer systems.

Cartoon reference number: a311


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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

Energy company profits cartoon

October 30, 2013 by chrismadden

energy company excessive profits

A comment about price increases by energy companies and the resulting profits

Energy price rises and the resulting increase in shareholders’ dividends

Ref: a634

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

China exports and productivity – cartoon

March 4, 2013 by chrismadden

 china exports and productivity

Cartoon – China productivity and exports

A cartoon about China’s dominance in the global economy and manufacturing

An illustration showing a globe with a label “Made in China” on it

A cartoon about economics, exports, globalisation

Cartoon reference number: a568


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Filed Under: ECONOMY

Italian general election cartoon. Beppe Grillo wins surprise victory

February 26, 2013 by chrismadden

Italian election - Beppe Grillo win

Italian general election cartoon. Beppe Grillo wins surprise victory

Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement wins seats in the general election

Grillo is now possibly in the position of being a ‘king maker’.
Grillo and Berlusconi – both comedians of sorts -are now a comic double act at the top of Italian politics
Cartoon reference number: a547

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Filed Under: Euro crisis, Politics

Scientific research funding cartoon

February 20, 2013 by chrismadden

scientific research funding cartoon

Cartoon about the cost of scientific research

A cartoon showing a rocket, labelled ‘Research’ being launched and then stalling after lift off.
The trail of the rocket forms the shape of a £ sign to indicate that the research is ‘powered’ by funding. The implication is that there isn’t enough funding to keep the research in the air

A cartoon about the financing of scientific research projects
Cartoon reference number: a523

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Filed Under: ECONOMY, SCIENCE

Scientific research project budgets – cartoon

February 20, 2013 by chrismadden

scientific research budget cuts cartoon

Scientific research project budgets – cartoon

A cartoon to illustrate articles about cuts in budgets for scientific research.

The cartoon shows research funding going to a research project that monitors the effects of the cuts in research funding.
The cartoon shows an astronomical observatory that has been closed down due to lack of finance.
This cartoon was originally drawn to illustrate an article in the BBC magazine Knowledge
Cartoon reference number: a521

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Filed Under: Astronomy, ECONOMY, SCIENCE

Barcode illustration – barcode as city skyline

January 18, 2013 by chrismadden

bar code cityscape illustration madden

Illustration – a product bar code in the form of a city skyline or city scape

Cartoon showing a bar code in the shape of a city’s financial sector.
A metaphor for commerce and finance

Cartoon reference number: a516

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Filed Under: Business, Consumerism, ECONOMY

Economics cartoons

January 2, 2013 by chrismadden

cartoons about economics

Welcome to my selection of cartoons about the economy and economics

To see my economics cartoons, including cartoons about the euro crisis, please click the image on the right, or click economics cartoons here.

Filed Under: ECONOMY

US recession cartoon – dollar sign as weakest link in a chain

December 26, 2012 by chrismadden

dollar sign as weakest link in a chain holding the economy - cartoon

US economic crisis cartoon
A dollar sign as the weakest link in a chain that is holding the US economy

A cartoon about the US economy and the weakness of the dollar – showing a dollar sign as a link in a chain.

The dollar sign is the weakest link in the chain.
The image is also about the fiscal cliff threatening the US economy in the new year of 2013, possibly making the US economy fall into recession.
A political cartoon about finance, the economy, financial links, currency, burdens on the economy

Cartoon reference number: a487

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

US economy cartoon. The dollar as the weakest link

December 26, 2012 by chrismadden

dollar sign as weakest link in chain - illustration

US economic crisis cartoon
A dollar sign as the weakest link in a chain

A cartoon about the US economy and the weakness of the dollar – showing it as a weak link in a chain.
The cartoon is also about the fiscal cliff threatening the US economy in the new year of 2013, possibly making the US economy fall into recession.

The number of links in the chain can be increased on request to make a longer chain
Cartoon reference number: a486

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Filed Under: ECONOMY

Fiscal cliff cartoon – the US economy attached to a falling dollar sign

December 24, 2012 by chrismadden

fiscal cliff - car and dollar sign - cartoon

Fiscal cliff cartoon
Cartoon of the US economy attached to a falling dollar sign

A political cartoon or editorial cartoon about the fiscal cliff that is threatening the US economy, possibly making the US economy fall into recession.
Cartoon showing a US dollar sign attached to a car’s tow bar, and dangling over a cliff edge (the fiscal cliff)

The car is being driven by Uncle Sam.
The cartoon shows the dollar sign dragging the car towards the edge of the cliff (as the falling dollar drags the US economy into recession).
The illustration is drawn in such a way that there’s a chance that the car might just about be able to turn things around and drag the dollar sign back up
Cartoon reference number: a485

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Filed Under: Business, ECONOMY

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