"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

 

The front pages of newspapers are filled with horror stories. Then you turn to the business pages and find stock markets soaring. What’s wrong with this picture?

World Reality,
Market Dreams

Kim’s N-bombs in Korea erupt,
Stock markets shrug, and then go up.

We’re quagmired in Iraq’s deep muck,
Stock markets shrug, rise higher up.

We blithely nature’s plans disrupt,
Stock markets shrug, their path is up.

The congress viewed, inept, corrupt,
Stock markets shrug, and still go up.

On what strange fruits investors sup,
In what cloud dreaming are they stuck,
That they think present market luck
Will last—let them the dark side duck.

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