Our Present Situation: Eight Haiku
Robert Higgs • Saturday, April 3, 2010
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