"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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Who says higher energy costs hurt the economy? The world’s largest energy company, Exxon Mobil, made a record $10 billion profit in the third quarter. What’s the problem...

Energy’s Silver Lining

Everywhere you turn these days
There’s endless angst and whining,
About the cost of energy
The pundits all are pining.
They treat it as a no-win thing
That has no silver lining,
And near and far they madly seek
Some perps for their maligning

(Excess profits ain’t ignoble
If they’re scooped by Exxon Mobil)

The cost to run the family car
Is giving folks the grumps,
And those who purchased SUVs
Think maybe they’ve been chumps.
All heating bills this winter time
Will register huge jumps,
While family budgets everywhere
Are gonna take their lumps.

(Don’t you wish you owned Chevron?
Even better—Marathon)

But wait, we’re told, things will improve
Once arctic drilling’s started,
And all those foolish green concerns
At last have been discarded.
The Congress having seen the light
Toward oil’s got big hearted,
To get a few more years’ supply
A wilderness it bartered.

(Grab that gen’rous tax break crutch,
Tap the tundra, Royal Dutch)

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