And the Rest Is History

The Cardinals chose
Young Joe Garagiola
The Yanks got Yogi

Near Death Experience

General Motors
Bankrupt, but “it ain’t over
until it’s over.”

The Closing Song For Greece/Grease

Greece and bad fiscal
Judgment go together like
Dip da dip da dip

By Guest Haiku Artist Ariel Collis, Economist

Global Plea

Unemployed so long
Brother, can you spare a job?
No easy answers

Republican Primaries

Battle rages on
Who is more conservative?
Obama is pleased

Occupy Wall Street

One percent are rich
Ninety-nine percent look on
Warfare or envy?

MF Global

Cash has disappeared
A billion here, billion there
So where did it go?

Euro Zone

Hellenic bailout
Grease the skids or skid the Greeks?
Atlas shrugs, again

Guest Haiku

Welcome to a new feature of Basis Points – Guest Haiku! All of our readers are encouraged to submit haiku to our Blogger-In-Chief for potential publication. What will you win? The adoration and adulation that comes with a coveted placement on Basis Points, what could be better than that.

Our first Guest Haiku Artist is Alexandra Mahnken, a Director at Huron Consulting Group in New York. (more…)

American Airlines

To file or not to file, that was the question.
Whether ’twas nobler for AMR to suffer
The slings and arrows of chapter 11 bankruptcy
Or to take arms against a sea of unions (more…)