Bankers' Remuneration

Said a pundit, "Where's the validity
That the bankers are paid so unfittingly?
Does the world so demand
The result of their hand,
Or it's just their control of liquidity?"

Ken's Reluctant Conclusion

"Wall Street," said Feinberg, the Pay Czar,
"Inadvisable though its displays are,
 Didn't break any laws
Merely because
Of how great its renum'rative ways are."

@TomKeene_ Interviews Pay Czar Ken Feinberg

"Can you say," asked Tom Keene of the Pay Czar,
"Mr. Feinberg, how numbered your days are?"
"Optimistic'ly, when
We've accounted," said Ken,
"For where all of the stim'lus outlays are."

Thanks to Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt of Bloomberg Surveillance, for a fascinating interview!

Let Them Eat Cake

Ken Feinberg, the government's Pay Czar,
Says, "How wicked our corporate ways are;
They'll end up, I bet,
As Marie Antoinette,
And her mate, King of France Louis Seize, are!"