Hayeku on the state of the union

Tax cuts here and there,
but still a lot of spending.
How could that go wrong?

Socialism's here!
In long run, we all succumb.
We're all muir-geos now.

Cool! Salute!

Sarkozy's reform?
Add morals to our markets!
But just whose morals??

Obama has plan
chess pieces to be arranged
invisible 'cuffs

I am not impressed.
The Cylons had a plan too.
See how that worked out? ;)

Ye of little faith
Cylons just robot cyborgs
O' says "you’ve got me!"

I'm really afraid
That the SOTU will display
The Fatal Conceit

How about a limerick?
There once was man from Sachs
Who frittered away our stacks.
He bailed out AIG
Wall Street applauded with glee
And for that, his bags we must pack

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Where's Muirgeo?
Can't you hear him dub Krugman
Poet Laureate?

About the word "fair"
Life and Thought are much clearer
When no longer said.

Keynes bizarre theory:
"Animal Sentiments" is
just not up to it.

Economy down?
Free the individuals
And watch the pie grow!

Economy falls
Progressives rush to proclaim
It is not our fault

Garden of Eden?
Or just a big post office?
Redistribution.

Magic wands appear

POTUS SCOTUS Congress grab

Poof...Disney order

(HT: Tinkerbelle)

There once was a man named Keynes
Who said, "Assemble the mightiest brains!
Let them control and command;
Boost aggregate demand!"
In his debt, society remains.

What, wrong format?

Oh, terribly sorry, this is haiku.

Limerick is down the hall, third door on the left...

There once was a woman from Venus
who's body was shaped like a...

nevermind

Thirty-six years past,
Hayek receives the Nobel
that Mises deserved.

We can't afford not to,

While we can't afford to, but

We can't afford not to.

Presidential needs:
Keywords, political talk,
Catchy rhetoric.

I don't have a job
The free market is to blame
More central planning

/Sarcasm off

Vapid Austrians
Liquidate malinvestment
The innocent lose

Too low for too long
Is the ad nauseum claim
but no evidence

A misguided graph
And Don claims unsound money
Wise up Mr. White

Ron Paul end the Fed
A hard money populist
Here comes inflation

What we really need
Central bank independence
Banish the gold bugs

Gold fetishism
But no intrinsic value
Barbarous relic

Marginalism
But not according to Marx
Or the gold people

Cluster of errors
Please stop making me laugh hard
I do real econ

Austrian macro
Tells you what you want to hear
And too simplistic

Friedman called it out
Austrian business cycle
With plucking model

But Friedman was wrong
With the fixed money growth rule
Velocity shifts

Still admire him
Longrun Phillips Curve
He denounced with Phelps

Let us not forget
His Nonparametric stat
Great statistician

Most importantly
Dominated Westmoreland
Helped to end the draft


--Pingry

Pingry is angry
His hero is a zero
Bernanke panky

You're haiku is long
And very condescending
Pingry hit-and-run

Epic, not haiku,
loses elegance with length
in spite of the form

Hail the Oracle,
Blowing bubbles with such skill.
Wait, they've popped! Oh dear.

Jeopardy challenge:
Obama is the answer -
What was the question?

What unqualified
person can get elected
and screw it all up?

Tonight we will see
an arrogant president
blame it all on Bush

Chaotic markets
hide the emerging order
new wealth from old

Men plan and plans fail
Unexpected consequence?
Hayek knew better

For you to debate
knowledge in society
you would need knowledge

That's good.

Decisions should be
based on info and knowledge
not populism

The union is not strong
It will not be for long
And everything obama does
is wrong, wrong, wrong



oops! wrong form!

PS - you have to say that one with Bart Simpson's voice...

The Left and Right frown.

"It is not normal to shrug.

Assert your truth, freak!"

The curious task
of economists is to
show that Keynes was wrong

Central planners can't
better individuals
running the economy

Obamanomics, Obamacare;
Deficits, taxes, deficits deficits, taxes.
Puke.

Markets evolve from
Human action not human
Design says Hayek.

Hayek understood
what Keynesians just cannot:
let people be free

So much damage done
by the followers of Keynes.
Hayek was more wise

All I really want
Not unemployment, no dole
Honest income please

Paradox of Thrift
or Hayekian Triangle?
Keynes if full of sh**!

Attempt to explain
voter sentiment will not
include "over reach"

Housing will cost less
Hail Freddy! (Hayek, not MAC)
Better re-fi now.

Hayeku battle.
Ike Pigott versus Bosco.
It's totally on!

Challenge accepted.
But I'm no economist,
just a crack wordsmith.

Keynes enables us
to pull cash out of our @$$.
Cain killed Abel. Hmmmm.

Successful thieves they
Agree on turf boundaries.
Territory safe.

Just as a matter of record, this was a direct response to the original haiku.

Need more stimulus!
Promotes growth in recession.
Like Joe Biden's hair.

Cynics obstruct me.
Enemies of hope and change.
"O-ba-ma." Say it.

Health care in shambles.
How can the people get by?
One day at a time.

"Good evening, Congress,
and my fellow Socialists."
Teleprompter FAIL!

I hope that tonight
the teleprompter does fail.
Wouldn't that be fun?

In long run we're dead
Yesterday's long run today
Pass burden to kids

High time preference brings
Government Stimulus plan
Skews order of goods

Love easy credit!
Everything is smooth sailing
Whoops, maybe it's not?

Those with the power
To set government budgets
Display no restraint

So far it looks like
Economists like Hayek
Write bad haikus

Critics of Hayek
Miss chance to learn econ and
Can't count syllables

I wish there were a way to "Like" a comment more than once.

Where was Hayek criticized?
Only your poetry was
And I'm happy you can count
Even if you cannot read

Wait... what are the rules?

The first line should have five syllables.
The second line should have seven syllables.
The third line should have five syllables.

So centrally planned.
Five seven five formula.
Hayek might not like.

:-)

As Hayek did know,
Rules by social convention,
Equate not to force.

In a Keynes Haiku,
Syllables can be nonsense.
Just so there's enough.

Keynesian Haiku
is in even less demand.
They have to fake it.

Emergent Order
Coordination without
planning from above

We need stimulus
The same way a deaf person
Needs a Bose system.

Correction! Not in the same way...a bose system will not harm a deaf person!

It does if he is forced at gunpoint to pay for it.

State of the Union?
Applause lines planned in advance
Are not emergent.

Vote your voice for change
Defeat Obama we must
Drain corrupt cess pool

Aggregate demand:
It's economics without
Imagination

Brilliant! ;-)

How little we know
how much we think that we know
Ignorance is bliss