Talk to the Invisible Hand

A song for the invisible hand of the market, currently slapping America silly.

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Talk to the Invisible Hand

Invisible hand, invisible hand, a magic trick that I don't understand
Watching its fist contract and expand with every jaw it breaks open
I might be a cynic but I think you'll agree, I can't put my trust in a thing I can't see
Invisible hand, i bow down to thee cause I don't want mine to get broken

When the invisible hand of the marketplace plants a punch right on your face
All the fools who once embraced it will let it pull them right under
When the invisible eyes of oversight fall asleep in broad daylight
Just drop the shades and kill the lights and leave them soundly in slumber
So keep your head afloat, and talk to the invisible hand 'til it slits your throat

Invisible hand, invisible hand, tickling away at supply and demand
Sprinkling imbalance across the land and thumbing its nose at resistance
Scratching the backs of the dry cleaner set, until they start begging to buy off the debt
If that's self-correction, let's come correct, I can't stretch all that distance

When the invisible hand of the marketplace plants a punch right on your face
All the fools who once embraced it will let it pull them right under
When the invisible eyes of oversight fall asleep in broad daylight
Just drop the shades and kill the lights and leave them soundly in slumber
So keep your head afloat, and talk to the invisible hand 'til it slits your throat

When the invisible hand of the market share flips it's finger in the air
And turns around and pinkie swears that it never knew what was coming
Invisible targets are easy to miss when they scurry off with a slap on the wrist
So how many more 'til we tire of this
And resolve to burn them with something more than a gift and a reprimand
It's time that we had a talk with the invisible hand

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Comments

[piul05]

Very good. I just thought there should be a verse about the invisible hand's nimble fingers too...

[research]

Great!

Now the :

The credit default swap tango....

The derivative dervish...

The short rap.

[Max and the Marginalized - Huffpost Blogger]

Thanks =)

That Simpsons where they go to Washington and there's that guy on the piano singing "the trade gap shuffle" - we're the punk rock version of that guy.

[Evelyn]

The thing about the "invisible hand" is that it's the same as the "invisible hand" that guides evolution--it doesn't care about you or me or anyone, really. It doesn't make any more sense to say that the market is "wrong" or "broken" than it does to say that about evolution. The market is simply what happens when people buy and sell. It doesn't make things all nice and comfy. It makes things however it makes them. If you want to sell your house and no one's buying, that's not a failure of the market. that IS the market.

[TheFriendlyAtheist]

Markets are an artificial sociological construct that have only a superficial resemblence to a natural occuring phenomenon such as evolution. Let's not equate the two.

[KillTheMessenger]

LOL! More! More! More!

[realityczech4u]

LOL. Spot on, Max. Write one about putting the coyotes in charge of the chicken coop.