Cherry blossoms in
Washington bathe frightful deeds
in springtime beauty.
~
Firms too big to fail
savor scent of roses from
Treasury’s garden.
~
No systemic risk
too dark a cloud for Congress
to make darker still.
~
Government jobs cause
illusion of revival –
mirage in desert.
~
Big banks take their ease
in fields of new-sown clover.
Fine friends ease worries.
~
Dear Leader’s voice like
thunder in hot afternoon.
Storm comes very soon.
~
Bernanke stays calm.
He has proper “tools” to curb
deluge we now dread.
~
River flows smoothly
toward renewed opulence;
then the cataract.
~
Robert Higgs is senior fellow in political economy for The Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., and editor of the institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review.
Robert Higgs
