Are you frightened about what’s going on in markets these days? Perhaps you should be.
The EU’s euro is shrinking, like a summer ice cream scoop;
Our own overspending has left us, awash in that old debt soup;
The struggling Dow and Nasdaq, can’t seem to find a floor.
And investor fears are rising, rising, rising,
Investor fears are rising,
Are rising more and more.
The days are past when investors viewed all losers as fallen gems,
And rushed to their rescue with money, like nurturing mother hens;
Now good companies, too, go begging, and cut spending to the bone,
To avoid deeper fiscal trouble,
Escape the deflated bubble,
Flee from the spreading rubble,
And worst things still unknown.
Perhaps one darkened morning soon, to panicky echoes we’ll wake;
The equity holders will tremble, the bond investors quake;
And as global economies teeter, we’d best pray there appears,
A plausible confidence mender,
A deep pocket lender spender,
Who can calm all our white knuckle fears.