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Confidence it seems has gone astray Economics? Ah what a waste they now say It seems all those case studies Must be thrown out the window Now that confidence has flown far away Should I just call up mystic Meg or pray? Built up on false accounting by snake oil bankers The world economy crumbled With the first adverse wind Revealing the nothing knowing man Trembling within To call it a recession and not a depression Is mere plaster work After the wall has fallen down On us seemingly blameless ordinary folk What if my spending plans Contributed to the country defaulting And going broke? Am I to beat myself up for spending As if tomorrow was some Silly inconsequential joke? We did put all our hopes in The banking sector Purely due to the fickleness of glamour Now we are left to stew and simmer A disaster a day keeps hope at bay The pages we peruse for some good news Pander to our capacity to blame others and To never learn from even our immediate past The power of lines not carefully strung By pundits that sell glamorous misery Is a possible impediment to growth And economic recovery These are the holy attributes That our paper world stands on Times are hard we are often reminded By those who have and take too much To expect no austerity When the cupboard is bare Is to act selfishly they also claim Despite them shouldering no blame For the dismal state we are now in Turmoil is endemic Contagious fear quickly spreads No border is rigid enough to safeguard any nation Or business plan bullet proof We just have to mend and make do With ineffective sticking plaster That is quantitative easing I think I may need to read a horoscope or two Fingers crossed they will guide me safely through This disaster I believe I contributed nothing to
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