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A Dyspeptic's Guide To Contemporary American Politics (In Verse)

"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post

"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today
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Some people think the U.S. and world economies are on the mend. But supposing they are wrong. Supposing because of governments' policies here and abroad, we're actually on the lip if another deep slide. A slide into...

The Next Depression

Sinking and sinking in a sickening swirl
Retail sales fall short of retailer goals;
Stock prices slide, well-run businesses fold;
Massive layoffs raise unemployment fears;
A loose-lipped faith in endless growth has died
Replaced by loud cries for costly bailouts;
Good deals lack all support, while ponzi schemes
Quickly acquire devoted followings.

Surely, the Invisible Fist is clenched;
Surely, the Next Depression has begun.

The Next Depression! Just the sound of these words
With their intimations of Social Upheavals
Scares me witless! all my senses tell me that
Some long neglected institution,
A festering financial backwater,
Is inching toward the edge, the black hole point
Where lies unreel to reveal hidden deserts.
Economic cycles rule: but all know
That after ten years of smug indulgence
Investor expectations are fiercely fixed
And though still cradled in addled dreams of wealth
Wake’ning soon, a beastly age will dawn.

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©2013 Michael Silverstein

 


Murder At Bernstein's by Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein's new wildly funny comic novel, Murder At Bernstein's, about a financial news billionaire who wants to get elected mayor of Philadelphia, is now available on Amazon in paperback and/or e-book versions.


Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan ©2012

Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan

Reviewers have been ecstatic about Michael Silverstein's new book, Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan, and its kinky humor, calling it "hysterically funny and outrageous," and "a very funny sci-fi, gothic horror." It is also getting five stars on amazon.com.

His book is a wild riff about some very strange doings under the streets of Gotham in 1973. A criminal society has taken root there along with a pollution-spawned new chain of life, both of which must be destroyed by an elite, secretly created military unit headed by a guy planning a coup d’état.

All that stands in the way of New York City descending into utter chaos, the country getting a military dictator, and the destruction of our present natural order, is a bumbling alternative newspaper reporter with landlord problems, and a pistol-toting feminist with anger issues.

Joe Gandelman, Editor-In-Chief in Arts & Entertainment at The Moderate Voice wrote in his review of Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan:
"The only question in reading this book is exactly where has Silverstein been HIDING all these years as a fiction writer? He is a GREAT writer and enthralling storyteller whose writing packs a hay-maker punch with vividly constructed scenes and punchy, realistic dialogue — a writer who easily elicits a chuckle or two (or more)... I could easily see him selling a script to Hollywood."

 


 
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The Wall Street's Poet's Best

Want to enjoy the very best work of Michael Silverstein, the Wall Street Poet? Check out this collection, Street Verse: 80 New Poems for Befuddled Investors [Paperback]. It's available new on Amazon from Silverwood Publishing (that's me) for $7.50 plus shipping. Just hit this link buy Street Verse, and you'll see this bargain-priced but brand new book. Buy it anywhere else and the Poet gets zilch.

It's a fun book, cunningly illustrated by Kay Wood. You'll enjoy it!

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Mike Silverstein
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