"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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Haiku was originally a Japanese poetry idiom that has now spread worldwide. It’s primary appeal to non-Japanese, alas, is its apparent simplicity. With just 17 syllables spread over just three lines (five syllables in the first, seven in the second, five in the third), this format lends itself to the most god-awful whines, half-thoughts, precious personal insights, and nature twinges that middling minds can create.

At its best, however, in the hands of, say, a master of the financial poetry genre, a good haiku stacks up well with witty epigrammatic verse, or insightful and biting French pensees—as the following effort clearly demonstrates.

Faded Financial
Cherry Blossoms

My 4 0 1 (k)
Is in a hole of late, but
I remain sanguine.

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