Selling Short
What do you sell
when you sell something short?
Is it for pleasure,
or profit or sport?
Wall Street has done it
for many a year,
making more paupers
than Miller has beer.
Whatever it is
and however it works,
we’re taking it out
of the hands of those jerks.
Do not feel sorry
for their petty plight –
they’ll still get their paws
on the poor widow’s mite.
Economists
Economists do not get sacked,
outsourced, downsized, or fired.
In fact the worse finances are
the more of them get hired.
They have no money of their own
but ours they can direct
to market shares for bulls and bears
’til we are derelect.
Don’t ever turn your back on one
or they will pick your pocket,
and in the name of research take
your watch [...]
