A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street

Ode to a bailout.

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A Year Later, Little Change on Wall Street


    –Headline in the New York Times

Derivatives are with us still,
Unregulated. All concede
That Congress doesn’t have the will
To curb a system based on greed.

So once again, the debt will grow,
Inflated salaries will soar.
Collapse? So what? The Gekkos know
We’d simply bail them out once more.

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