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  • n  (Yiddish) aggravating trouble
    the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to

  • Meanwhile, the NEH seems to have become confused with the NEA in the public mind--as though the National Endowment for the Humanities had suffered the same tsuris as the National .
  • Well, at least we know what Salesgenie's next Super Bowl ad will be: "Oy gevalt! Such tsuris these lousy sales leads are giving me!" I'm Jewish, so we're cool with that, right?.
  • In TV revivals of Broadway farces, he plays crabby geezers: the tourist with tsuris in Don't Drink the Water, a decrepit comic in a new version of The Sunshine Boys.
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  • Did Derivatives Worsen the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis?
    Yves here. This post summarizes a paper that argues that derivatives, specifically credit default swaps, exacerbated the severity of the European sovereign debt tsuris . This sort of analysis deserves a wider audience, precisely because the prejudice of both neoclassical and neoliberal economists is that markets are ever and always virtuous, and that prices are never wrong unless someone is ...
    April 18, 2014 - Naked Capitalism

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