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Weather Advisory

Today's limerick has been postponed due to inclement weather.

Overheard at Goldman Sachs

"We assume that you know what you're doing,
In this ill-advised trade you're pursuing,
But the opposite bet
That we place on your debt
May eventually hasten your ruin."

Overheard in Quebec

"It's a comfort, whenever I'm sick,
Zat our système, while not magnifique, 
Is financially sound, 
Unlike zat to be found 
In l'États-Unis d'Amérique."

Misbegotten Monetary Union

At the hour of the Euro's creation,
To belong was the yen of each nation,
But to meet its constraints,
Some resorted to feints
Of financially flawed derivation.

Who Rates the Raters?

"Credit ratings I don't understand,"
Said a moody young man from Jharkhand,
"Their standards are poor,
And conflicted, I'm sure -
And the outcome seems canned, if not planned."

Analytical, or Just Political?

That the macro-political element
'S where economists' work is most relevant,
May explain their proclivity
To drop objectivity
And run with the Donkey or Elephant.

(In answer to Sam Costanzo's lament.)

Good News and Bad News

American spirits were buoyed
When the Feds announced fewer unemployed,
But those factory jobs
Sought by uneasy mobs
May have vanished right into the void.

Snow Day at the Fed

'Mid the snowbanks, as Washington slumbered,
Stood Bernanke, by duty encumbered:
"When this credit freeze thaws, 
I'll hike rates, because 
If inflation's back, my days are numbered."

Thanks to Dorothy Lefkovits of San Francisco, CA for the suggestion of snow in DC.