Sunday, March 25, 2018

From the Wall Street Journal. Sunday March 25 2018




China is the second-biggest customer for U.S. agricultural products after
Canada, and its planned tariffs on pork, fruit, nuts and other goods are
expected to worsen the U.S. farm economy’s slump.


In China our chicken feet sold
For scads of nice silver and gold.
But now a trade war
Means Chinese abhor
Those cackling tootsies tenfold!


Bank examiners comb records and interrogate executives. If they see a
problem, they can order bankers to fix it and sanction banks that
don’t listen. When examiners succeed at preventing transgressions,
hardly anyone notices. When they fail, consumers suffer.


There once was a bank snooper mad
Who never thought banks could go bad.
He never thus fined
A bank, and stayed blind
To evil like Sir Galahad.


The skill of spotting false information—rubbish, nonsense and, yes,
fake news—is so important these days that scientists have begun
serious research on it. They’re attempting to quantify when and
why people spread it, who is susceptible to it, and how people can
confront it.



I never tell lies anymore.
The internet saves me the chore.
With all their fake news
And bumfuzzled views
The truth has become just folklore.

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