The Ballad of Diamond Jim (A Tale of Too-Big-to-Fail Banking)

A western-style number about a too-big-to-fail banker. A creative joint venture of Merle Hazard & Marcy Shaffer. More songs at Merle's site (merlehazard.com) and Marcy's (versusplus.com and / versusplus .
Don't miss former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson discussing this song with Paul Solman, economics correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, in a related KZbin video titled "The Ballad of Diamond Jim: Annotated," at • The Ballad of Diamond ... .
Song by Merle Hazard, Marcy Shaffer ( / versusplus ) and Curtis Threadneedle ( / 125638647492746 .

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

"...you'd be buyin' less diamonds if we still had Glass Steagall." Simply put. Yes.

[@philipu150]

Love it. Of course, the names and characters portrayed are fictional and any resemblance to real persons at Wall St. Banks is ENTIRELY incidental. Naturally. Meanwhile, we still urgently need the re-enactment of Glass-Steagall. Simple and straightforward, especially when laid next to the 500,000 or so pages of Dud-Frank...

[@stephend9756]

We need more Marco Economic Country Ballads!

[@mag1102009]

Wonderful!

[@TheKongz360]

Great as always!

[@kdfooaijfea3asdf]

Lovely!

[@Resolution1774]

Brilliant!

[@shane_rm1025]

Oh I get it, it's a parody of "Big John," that's amazing

[@JordanCarterTrombone]

Your music is a lot more relevant than the average person knows...

[@mgajosh]

How about a London-Whale Hunting Sea Shanty?

[@motorpsychodelic]

Oh I really like Frances Cunningham, she's beautiful :-)