Dr. Goose's Economical Limericks

Said Romney: "I find it absurd Giving federal support to Big Bird. To feather his nest Leaves our budget distressed - Free markets ...

Presidential debating is won When the relevant numbers are run: The percentages which Tell the poor from the rich - 99, 47 and 1. Di...

Said a policy wonk named Maria: "We're in need of a tax panacea, And I'm hearing that Romney, The GOP nom'nee, Has fl...

Said a mogul of stock-market dealing, His support for Obama repealing: "I don't mind paying tax, But this President lacks Due...

Said the Bishop, in humbling homily: "You bankers are quite the anomaly. I'd like to convert you To living in virtue, Instead...

"We took a non-core operation And spun it off, free of taxation. In time it so grew, We repurchased it, too, In the interest of wo...

Said a banker: "We used to condone The rigging the cost of a loan, A benevolent practice 'Til many attacked us, And now we mu...

There's a model of rate calculation, First advanced in the Great Moderation, That would have the Fed set The cost of our debt Based ...

An economist known to propound A theory he thought to be sound Ignored a taboo By changing his view When facts that disproved it wer...