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A man wielding an axe walks on to a field where all the trees have been chopped down. On his jacket reads 'Wage Demands'. He is eyeing up the last tree standing, with thoughts of a potential Christmas tree on his mind. His family are shown below in a car with wide grins across all three of their faces. On one of the tree stumps is a sign that reads 'KEEP OUT! ECONOMIC REAFFORESTATION'

A luxury yacht, entitled 'ECONOMIC SUMMIT', is shown anchored in the sea. Aboard a waiter serves drinks to shadowed guests. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are playing with a ball in the water. However, directly next to the yacht is a flaming sinking ship, entitled 'GULF WAR.'

Context: The Guardian article this cartoon was connected to was entitled 'Summit 'splits' add to security problem'.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to economics.

Subjects covered include: the banana trade crisis in the West Indies, 1994; impact of transnational corporations (TNCs),1993; gold production in Africa, 1992; copper industry in Zambia, 1993; Taiwan's economic targets for 2000, 1992; UN embargo against Iraq, 1991; closing down the Bank of Credit and Commerce, 1991; tourism business issues, 1991; Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), 1991 and the Coordinating Committe of the World Bank's green policies, 1990.

Cuttings from various newspapers about the economics of the press. Includes a booklet entitled 'Costs and revenue of national daily newspapers, signed by Baistow, dated 1967.

Depicts Geoffrey Howe thirsty and sweating while trying to get water from a pump labelled 'Industry'. Margaret Thatcher stands by a broken down car, labelled 'Monetarism', that has overheated. She looks relaxed and cool under an umbrella. A group of birds wearing mortarboards and labelled as 'Economics Glee Club of 364' sing "Each day I face the barren waste without a taste of water... Cool Water".

File of internal correspondence and papers concerned with making financial economies. Proposals include editing and publishing the paper from one centre only, reduction in editioning, increasing the selling price of the Guardian and abolishing the Manchester Guardian Weekly.
Correspondents include JH McKelvie, Charles Prestwich Scott and Alastair Hetherington.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Chairman's Office; Laurence Prestwich Scott

Includes request for articles, clippings and hand-written and typed draft articles written by Clyde Sanger as The Economist's Canada correspondent. Includes articles relating to Canada, Africa, The USSR and the United States. Also includes correspondence with The Economist.

A plane labelled 'Air Traffic Control Assts' is landing in an airport at full speed. However, just in front of it another plane which has crashed is blocking the runway. Smoking and being aided by a team of firefighters, this aircraft is called 'Pay Polly'. In a watchtower [labelled Economy Control], two men anxiously watch over this imminent crash.

Maps, charts and illustrations, produced by Gemini News Service, relating to Ecuador.

Subjects include:
Ecuador's chemical backlash, April 1994