Our Present Situation: Eight Haiku
Robert Higgs • Saturday April 3, 2010 11:40 AM PDT •
Cherry blossoms in
Washington bathe frightful deeds
in springtime beauty.
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Firms too big to fail
savor scent of roses from
Treasury’s garden.
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No systemic risk
too dark a cloud for Congress
to make darker still.
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Government jobs cause
illusion of revival –
mirage in desert.
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Big banks take their ease
in fields of new-sown clover.
Fine friends ease worries.
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Dear Leader’s voice like
thunder in hot afternoon.
Storm comes very soon.
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Bernanke stays calm.
He has proper “tools” to curb
deluge we now dread.
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River flows smoothly
toward renewed opulence;
then the cataract
Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute, author or editor of over fourteen Independent books, and Founding Editor of Independent’s quarterly journal The Independent Review.
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