Merle Hazard is the first and only country artist to sing about mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and physics.  He is best known for his songs about the credit crisis and its after-math.

   LATEST NEWS

     * Merle’s first editorial cartoon.

    *  Merle, and his friend Marcy Shaffer of Versus, did a BBC World Service interview, aired Dec. 23, 2011. Link to the interview here and Merle and Marcy go on at the 8 min, 26 sec. mark.

   FAVORITES

    Some of Merle’s more popular songs are The Greek Debt Song, Inflation or Deflation, and Double Dippin’.

    Click here for a round-up of links to press coverage of Merle’s songs, including appearances on the PBS NewsHour.

    Merle co-wrote a smokin’ hot, 1970s style love song about quantitative easing with Sir Curtis Threadneedle.

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   Merle is known to many as “The Man in Beige.”  He should not be confused with one of his country heroes, the singer Merle Haggard.  They are totally separate.  They do not even sing about the same things, for the most part.