–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.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”