By Douglas O’Bryon
Just in time for the holidays, the musical duo of Roubini & Blankfein has announced Broadway’s smash new musical tribute to Wall Street entitled “The Sound of Money!” Yes, the Great White Way has found a way to honor the Great White Whale as they follow the misadventures of Maria value Trapp, as she navigates the complex world of credit default swaps, shadow derivatives, and high frequency trading.
Sing along to the soundtrack of some of your favorite songs including:
The Sound of Money
The Street is alive, with the sound of money.
With trades they have made, for a thousand years!
I am Six Figures Going On Seven Figures
You wait, little girl, on an empty floor, for men to ring the bell on.
Your life, little girl, is an empty check, that men will want to write on….to write on.
You are six figures going on seven figures, innocent as a Goldman intern…
I Have Consumer Confidence
What will this day be like? I wonder.
What will my futures be? I wonder.
It could be so exciting, to be out in a market that is free, my heart should be wildly rejoicing, oh what’s the matter with me?
I’ve always longed to go public, to get the shares I never had, I could be retiring in Munich, then why am I so scared?
I have consumer confidence in retail, I have consumer confidence in gold, I have consumer confidence that growth will come again, besides what you see I have confidence Greece.
Strength doesn’t lie in numbers, strength doesn’t lie in bonds, strength lies in nights of inside trading, when you wake up, WAKE UP!
The Fed and 7 Governors, what’s so fearsome, about that?
Oh, I must stop all these doubts all these worries, if I don’t, I just know I’ll turn back.
I must dream of the things I am seeking, I am seeking the alpha I lack….
What about this new favorite?
How do you Solve a Problem like Bernanke?
He’s QE3, for infinity, to keep liquidity,
He waltzes while at Jackson Hole, forget austerity.
And underneath his white beard, he’s got another one to spare,
I’ve even heard him singing in the Senate.
I’d like to say a word on his behalf.
Bernanke, makes me, laugh!
How do you solve a problem like Bernanke?
How do you catch his words and pin him down?
How do you solve a problem like Bernanke?
A Keynesian, a helicopter, a clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell him, many a thing he ought to understand.
But how do you make his stay, and reduce executive pay, how do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Bernanke?
How do you keep Rajat Gupta out of jail?
When I’m with him and confused, all the acronyms he’s used, and I never know exactly where I am.
Unpredictable as weather, he’s as flighty as a feather…
He’s a headache, he’s Paul Giamatti’s cousin, he’s a dove….
And if you liked Edelweiss, you’ll LOVE
Arbitrage
Arbitrage, arbitrage, every company does it, (lies) small and white, budgets tight, you look happy to meet me (at 1am, in a limo, with unmarked bills)
You already KNOW the melody, so the songs practically write themselves!
My Favorite Things
Oil drops on rumors, and whispers on misses, Santelli rants and its Liesman he’s dissing.
Gold colored parachutes tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things.
When the bull stops, when the bear bites, when I’m selling like mad, I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.
The Lonely Trader
High in a suite right above Manhattan…
So Long, Farewell
There’s a strange sort of clanging from the clock on the Wall (Street) and the bell at the NASDAQ too.
And up on my Twitter an obscure little bird, is popping up to say, “What’s New?”
Go Buy, Go Buy, Go Buy, Go BUYYYY!
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Douglas O’Bryon’s sanguine Soundbite Laureate moniker paints a poetic self-portrait of this adult prodigy, who enjoys nothing more than pitting man versus metaphor in a continuing fight for justice from his vantage point high above Strongsville’s suburban Serengeti.Author and artist, bodybuilder and businessman, cereal entrepreneur and everyman, soccer Dad and MBA grad, he is a realist, idealist, and surrealist, who considers his job done when he has blended high tech with high touch into an easy to swallow Digital Casserole, which is, ironically, also the name of his blog. He is currently working his new novel, a sequel to The Titanic.