Street Verse: 80 New Poems for Befuddled InvestorsDIANE Publishing, 2003 - 132 páginas What would famous poets such as Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis Carroll, & William Shakespeare say about economic topics such as options trading, Enron, a sinking U.S. dollar, & CEO compensation packages? Silverstein rewrote some of the greatest verse of great poets past in a way that gives these dead masters the posthumous opportunity to comment on contemporary financial market shenanigans. The upshot is the present collection. Chapters: market machinations, labor & mgmt., market fear & loathing, investing tips in verse, tax angst, the Fed. Reserve & its instruments, the players & their games, financial market haiku, currencies, & Shakespeare on Wall Street. Illustrated. |
Termos e frases comuns
90's Market Hero ain't Argentina assets attempt at camouflage best-known Big market misery Black Friday bond boom bout sovereigns bout the market's Broke Bum-butty-bumbum Cherry Blossoms Chorus corp'rate currencies day traders play Dead dog bounce debt diligence he advocates Dylan Thomas economy Enron euro ev'ry Father Dollar fears financial verse Flee folks Grad grumble bout guru haiku investing investors Jubilee Lewis Carroll Limericks market marches market's plight Michael Silverstein munis and bout Nasdaq never nonsense verse numbers Old Golden Ducats Old Oaken Bucket pain with cash parody Penny Stocks place like home poem poet poetic prepared to overpay profits Recession rhyming Rudyard Kipling Shill you analyst soared Soloist Song sonnet sovereigns he knows Stock Perk Dream sucked tarrier there's no pain there's no place things tricks with munis U.S. dollar vulture W.S. Gilbert Wall Street version wealth whack wonderful cash
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Página 80 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 82 - Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May.
Página 68 - Let me live In a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Página 58 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetable...
Página 54 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames...
Página 92 - In such writings there are usually three lines with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
Página 60 - Tis better to have loved and lost Then never to have loved at all.
Página 80 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour; — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 6 - And all I ask is a tall ship, And a star to steer her by.
Página 90 - I should be grateful that there are dentists ; but for the life of me, I can't figure out why anyone would want to be a dentist when he could be a teacher ! Behind those heavy demands on his students, Peter Gowing was a warm-hearted individual.