There’s more to life then poetry. Not much more, perhaps, but enough to warrant a separate, if not quite equal place on this website. Here’s a few of Silverstein’s essays and Op Ed pieces on a variety of financial topics. (Click on a link to see an essay)

The Core Rate Con Game

Who Owns Your Identity?

My Not So Funny Valentine

Santa Revisited

Why Things Cost More When There’s No Inflation

Tax Cuts Be Damned—Let’s Abolish Taxes Altogether

Need A Job? Become A Police Informer

Welcome To Pledge Central
(The Silverstein family reaches out)

Coot TV
(A new direction in programming)

Confessions Of A Chicken Puncher
(Life on the range)

I Hate Spring
(The high cost of anti-histamines)

The Joys Of Faux Shopping
(Counter-cultural consumption)

The New Public Service
(A rich guy bought an election in NYC the other
day. What does it mean?)

Fight Back! Buy Something
(in the wake of what happened in New York
and Washington, D.C. Sept. 11)

The Polluters’ New Clothes
(Why emissions trading is madness)

Re-Wolfing Urban Parks -
(A parable of modern free markets)

The Man From ZOG is Perplexed -
(Fleshing out a myth)

No Justice, No Pats -
(A cry for equality)

Core Rate Madness -
(How not to measure inflation accurately)

The Only Really Sensible Social Security Reform -
(So simple it’s simply overlooked)

Is ‘Being Green’ Social Darwinism Or Social Justice? -
(Environmentalism’s nasty little secret)

Poem of the Week

Past Satirical Verse

Guest Poems

Financial Essays

Books by the Wall Street Poet

About the Poet

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"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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