On all the money networks
Every Tom and Ted and Sally
Are saying that the metrics
Indicate a Christmas rally
Black Friday was a blowout
And Monday had some heft
I wonder if consumers
Will have any money left
Interest rates are poised to move
They call it an inflection
Though no one knows for certain
In an up or down direction
More folks are in the labor force
And this is quite surprising
Despite the competition
Salaries are rising
As a poet in Tarzana
Or a hockey kid from Queens
I haven’t got a clue about
What any of this means
But I’m paying close attention
To the snowflakes and the holly
And one thing that I’ve noticed–
People are more jolly
They’re saying, “Merry Christmas.”
In a way that’s most beguiling
And even at the DMV (airports)
Everybody’s smiling
And when I went out shopping
And was circling the lot
A candidate for sainthood
Let me have her parking spot
No, I don’t know economics
I want that understood
But when it comes to Christmas Cheer
Things are looking good.