Sunday, February 4, 2018

Ledes & Limericks. Sunday February 4 2018




Wells Fargo’s Growth Will Be Limited,

Directors to Be Replaced After

Fed Cites ‘Abuses’  

  from the Wall Street Journal.



Bankers paying heavy fines
For ignoring Fed guidelines
Shed a tear that’s crocodilian --
Since they’ve made a couple billian . . .



Memo’s Release Escalates

 Clash Over Russia Probe;

 Trump Says It ‘Totally 

Vindicates’ Him

from the Wall Street Journal



Memos are a funny deal --

First they hide and then they squeal.

Still, they’re often so opaque,
You don’t know if they’re real or fake.

(Edward Holman, in the Wall Street Journal, replied to the above ditty with this line: "Smirking alone is what delivered you to this place in time.)

(James Beard, also in the Wall Street Journal, also had a reply to my poem: "Members of the FBI have told us repeatedly that this memo contains no inaccuracies.

They are unhappy that things that could have been said to make them look better were not said.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is hard to come by in a court of law.  I would say the record on this memo is pretty good.")




‘The American Dilemma’:

Why Do We Still Watch Football?  

 From the NYTimes



The reason that the Super Bowl
Is hotter still than burning coal
Is not because of darksome fads --
It’s all about the nifty ads!


The politics and brutal play
Are not what makes us stay and stay --
We want to see how cars and beer
Can tickle us this coming year.


So viewership to Nth degree
You’d get for any spelling bee
If commercials nonpareil
You guaranteed without a fail.


‘Bitcoin is my potential pension’:

What’s driving people in Kentucky

to join the craze

There was an old man in Kentucky
Who thought that he just might be lucky
With bitcoin affairs --
But the bulls and the bears

Left his accounts rather mucky.

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