"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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About Silverstein's Verse

 

One of the biggest meetings ever of the world's top economic heavies took place this weekend in Saudi Arabia. Finance ministers, oil sheiks, bankers, corporate CEOs, ever a few presidents, had assembled to reassure the world that sky-high prices for energy could be kept under control. So why wasn't I reassured?

Frightened Little Men

They met to shape our daily lives
It's basics and its graces
Our economic masters
From near and distant places.

The media were reverent
Let speakers posture, preach
They would ('twas hoped) devise ways that
Keep energy in reach.

But as I watched more carefully
I saw what I had feared
These masters of economies
Seemed little men—and scared.

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