Poesía Económica

Por alguna desafortunada razón generalmente los economistas no escriben poesía y generalmente los poetas no les interesa mucho la economía.

Un lector anónimo del blog IPE es la excepción a la regla y ha usado la lírica para describir como los americanos estan gastando tanto gracias a la deuda que contrean con los chinos y como a pesar de eso una recesión económica es inminente:

FAST WEALTH AND BITTER BREAD
The oil prices start to soar
While Real Estate has hit the floor,
The Stock Market is jittery,
The future prospects bitterly
Surveyed on Wall Street and Main Street,
As all alike know they must eat
Their bitter bread, their bitter bread,
Who let fast wealth get to their head.

So China props the dollar up,
But will not fill your beggar´s cup
When she determines not to prop you--
So will not common sense then stop you
From your spend thrift indulgences?
No priest nor prophet comes to bless
Your bitter bread, your bitter bread,
Who let fast wealth go to your head.

It was a fond, elusive dream,
Illusory as it would seem,
But, though superb ambitions went
Before, it was all fraudulent,
This hope, sans rolling up one´s sleeves
To profit--them delusion leaves
But bitter bread, such bitter bread,
Who let fast wealth fill all their head.