ELECTRONIC HERD
Electronic
herd--it's just the latest
and most
up-to-date word in economics.
Electronic herd,
it plumbs the mystery
Of how a stock can
boom and bust in just one day.
Heard of the herd?
It's just the latest thing
In economic
parlance, the real last word.
Electronic herd,
the word explains it
If you really want
to know just where your buck stops.
It's my buck; it's
my savings--
How could it be
gone in one night?
I try, try to find
out
The person who's
behind it--the real top dog.
Get with the
times! It's not a person,
It's the whole
total sum of all the trading that's done.
Those signals just
fly in milliseconds
Between the fine
computers all over this world.
It's my job, it's
my living--
How could it be
gone in one night?
It can't be some
electronic current!
Who could be
behind it--the real top dog?
Electronic herd,
it's just the latest
and most
up-to-date word in economics.
Those signals just
fly, and all the traders crying
"My computer's
bigger and faster than yours!"
I can't help but
thinking
There's got to be
some people out there.
That Alfred P.
Newman in the White House
Knows
them--they're gettin' rich while we get poor!
So I'll have to
look hard,
Persevere, and if
some bright MBA tries to hand me that drill
About electronic
herd, I'll have to tell him
"Well, I'm just
not buying that today, you poor young sap!"
c
2002 Rachel Nelson
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