"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post

"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today

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It may seem presumptuous to write a financial calendar for all of 2002 in September. But since we already know what happened in the first nine months of the year, and have a pretty good (and frightening) idea of what’s coming in the next three, I thought I’d take a whack and beat the end-year rush.

A 2002 Financial
Calendar in Verse

January, skittish action
February, a mean contraction
March, my losses start to wax
April, whacked by income tax
May, there’s angst in Argentina
June, my stocks go to the cleaner
July, for Tylenol I reach
August, slink off to the beach
September brings some new war fears
October spawns Black Friday scares
November, politicians rant
December, Christmas joy is scant
Two thousand two is such a bummer
I hope two thousand three’s not glummer.

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