The Economy in Haiku

The economy in haiku
Oct 26th 2011, 14:52 by R.A. | WASHINGTON

THE KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION conducts a quarterly survey of economics bloggers (you can see the third quarter results here). It tends to focus on current economic conditions and policy questions, but the fourth-quarter questionnaire contained something a little different: a challenge to capture the state of the economy in haiku. The results are sublime. Here, for instance, is the contribution from Interfluidity's Steve Waldman:

This is not so hard.
Helicopter money please.
Wired straight to households.

Tax the Rich and Now
Borrow to Invest in Stuff
Bring Back the New Deal
- Daniel Gross

Boost U.S. Demand
Need More Money and Tax Cuts
Hands off the long run
-Karl Smith

Climate change question
Cap-and-trade or carbon tax
Either efficient
-John Whitehead

Double dip at bay
Despite moronic Congress
Europe sinks us all
-Ryan Avent

Econ guys, gentle souls
Think policies guide markets
Jail time is better
-Robert Cringely

Economy Grows Big
Increase in Stock Market
My Children Get Rich
-James Altucher

Economy sucks?
New policies shake things up!
Causing more suckage.
-Glen Whitman

Employment down, output up
Doing more with less
Until everything is done by no one
-Wade Roush

Intermodal loadings increase
Trade conflict looms without cease
Occupy Wall Street
-Stephen Karlson

jobs and Jobs are gone
need more Jobs to get more jobs
innovate to grow
-Arthur Diamond

Jobs are needed now
Austerity ill-timed
Action is required
-Jeff Miller

Keynes' America falls
Growth will emerge with startups
Hayek wins the day
-Tim Kane

many angry folks
watch political duck soup
less soup back to work
-David Zetland

Monetary stimulus is all that's left
Do it right or suffer
Target NGDP to end the quest
-James Picerno

More demand is needed
The Fed is responsible
Do not look elsewhere
-Scott Sumner

More public spending
Is needed to fill the gap
Sadly America fails
-Bill Mitchell

New Commanding Heights
Credentials Suffocating
Let the market work
-Arnold Kling

No one has a job
Except econobloggers
And they're not paid much
-Felix Salmon

Revenge of the Nerds
ZMP can't outcompete
Very small shell scripts
-Eli Dourado

The goal is simple
Get Americans to say
"I, Entrepreneur"
-Nick Schulz

The US needs jobs
Politicians have theirs now
With which they do little
-Austin Frakt

This is not so hard.
Helicopter money please.
Wired straight to households.
-Steve Waldman

Those kids blame the banks.
Is Wall Street pre-occupied?
Next: capital strike.
-Michael Munger

Uncertainty rules
While the economy suffers
Politics rejoices
-Pedro Albuquerque

When Japan fell in 1990s
They were lectured by the world economists
Time for Japanese to smile
-Amol Agrawal