Mammon’s Mantra (finance)

Small industries amalgamate

and streamlined now we operate:

outsource, downsize and automate.

Competition we obliterate.

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From this, huge profits emanate.

Stockholders hail the chief magnate:

a demigod we adulate

although he’s found to peculate.

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Since companies self-regulate

their price tags tend to escalate

which leaves us all to contemplate

outstanding debts as they inflate.

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Big chain stores have funds to regrate

which helps us to potentiate.

False bargains interpenetrate

consumers who desiderate.

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Some financiers prognosticate

on spending we should concentrate,

but others strongly intimate

it makes more sense to curb the spate.

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On markets, punters speculate;

hope dividends quadruplicate.

A windfall we anticipate.

Our surplus needs we satiate.

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Though if the bank should designate

we’ve nothing to hypothecate

we need not rant and get irate.

Bankruptcy we can auspicate.

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