Pierpont Morgan Library Exhibit Is “On the Money”

Money is scarce, but hopefully humor is in good supply.

When the well-heeled patrons of New York’s venerable Morgan Library wander through its new exhibition of cartoons about money, there may be some hollow laughter as they ponder their own hard times.

The exhibit of 70 years of New Yorker magazine cartoons titled “On the Money” was planned over a year ago, before the full scale of the financial crisis that has plunged the United States and much of the world into recession became apparent.

Here’s the story from Reuters with two cartoons included.