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Wall Street Poet
Michael Silverstein's
Financial Essays
& Op Eds

There’s more to life then poetry. Not much more, perhaps, but enough to warrant a separate, if not quite equal place on this website. Here’s a few of Silverstein’s essays and Op Ed pieces on a variety of financial topics.

(Click on a link to see an essay)

The Core Rate Con Game

Who Owns Your Identity?

My Not So Funny Valentine

Santa Revisited

Why Things Cost More When There’s No Inflation

Tax Cuts Be Damned—
Let’s Abolish Taxes Altogether

Need A Job? Become A Police Informer

Welcome To Pledge Central
(The Silverstein family reaches out)

Coot TV
(A new direction in programming)

Confessions Of A Chicken Puncher
(Life on the range)

I Hate Spring
(The high cost of anti-histamines)

The Joys Of Faux Shopping
(Counter-cultural consumption)

The New Public Service
(A rich guy bought an election in NYC the other
day. What does it mean?)

Fight Back! Buy Something
(in the wake of what happened in New York
and Washington, D.C. Sept. 11)

The Polluters’ New Clothes
(Why emissions trading is madness)

Re-Wolfing Urban Parks -
(A parable of modern free markets)

The Man From ZOG is Perplexed -
(Fleshing out a myth)

No Justice, No Pats -
(A cry for equality)

Core Rate Madness -
(How not to measure inflation accurately)

The Only Really Sensible Social Security Reform -
(So simple it’s simply overlooked)

Is ‘Being Green’ Social Darwinism Or Social Justice? -
(Environmentalism’s nasty little secret)

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