Financial Collapse 2008
By John Kaniecki
Subprime mortgages
Were not in shortages
Cause honestly honey
It was quick, dirty money
With predatory lending
And regulations ending
Everything seemed mighty fine
When the buyer signed on the
line
Unfortunately the American
dream
Crashed and burned in a
scream
The housing bubble went pop
And easy money came to a stop
Alas greed is a lamentable
tale
Suddenly the purists could
not understand
The wisdom of the ‘invisible
hand’
And whined in a shout, “TOO
BIG TO FAIL”
Well when rich people are
losing wealth
It is a crisis that our
politicians personally felt
So the Federal Reserve
Refusing to slightly swerve
Quickly
Pumped in billions of
liquidity
The common man of course
Faired much worse
And suddenly America found
Homelessness abound
Of course the public was
dismayed
When all the bonuses were
paid
The moral of the story
Is one of most concern
“In greed there is no glory”
A lesson we seem never to
learn
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This poem was a very odd request but the harder ones I appreciate more.
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