The Dears Money Babies on YouTube

I don’t usually look to musicians for economic illumination

- (except maybe blues musicians - this IS a Depression, after all, and blues IS Depression Music) -

…but I just LOVE The Dears’ “Money Babies”;

Our money is elastic. Our money is elastic.

Gotta get milk for the baby and our money is elastic.

Decapitative laughter is keeping us alive.

Cavalcades of losers, losing their minds.

Hoping for disaster. Settin’ off alarms.

Amid all of the deranged. Amid all the charmed.

Do you remember that time when we thought we were gonna die?

Well, baby nothing much has changed.

And yet they haven’t been the same since at all.

Our money is elastic. Our money is elastic.

Gotta get milk for the baby. Gotta get milk for the baby.

(Honorable Mention - not economic, but also Canadian - Hey Rosetta - “Red Heart”)

Oh, and - Holy Shit! - The Hold Steady - “Constructive Summer” - (Joe and I can relate to this)

Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer / I think he might have been our only decent teacher / getting older makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviors