Bailout

Poem of the day

By Felix Salmon

Martin Dickson wins the day with his fabulous tale of bankster excess, in rhyming couplets no less. Go read the whole thing, but here’s a taster:

Exuberant beyond all reason
(For this or any other season)
Fired up by dreams of starter castles,
Sardinian yachts and vineyard parcels,
They built themselves a strange device ?
A ticking bomb, to be precise.

The trouble was they did not know,
It was a bomb ?twas ticking so.
They thought it merely marked the beat
That called them to stay on their feet
And dance away ? to really bop ?
To music that would never stop.

Now, if only someone would make a YouTube video of this, complete with music and visuals.

(HT: Daniel Lippman)

Full post as published by Macroprudential on December 30, 2009 (boomark / email).