Cause! Cure?
Greenspan, Rubin, Summers, Gensler

'Twas a slight miscalculation.
    Though all these guys misjudged
The need for regulation,
    should their brilliance be begrudged?

Greenspan kicked it off by keeping
    interest rates too long too low,
But then greedy Wall Street gamblers
    dealt his scheme a nasty blow.

It took Rubin-Summers-Gensler
    and Phil Gramm to pull it off:
Derivitives unregulated
    for fat piggies at the trough.

It got Larry into Harvard;
    got signed by Clinton into law;
Got Rubin into Citigroup;
    and was Alan's last hurrah.

But will Summers be successful
    in getting Gensler put in charge
While the crisis in commodities
    continues looming large?

Foxes in the henhouse!
    Should the guys who run the store
Be the same miscreants
    who stuck it to us once before?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
2/9/09

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