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1. The White House wouldn‘t spring for a fire engine." (Pikers!) And now we have this curious, possibly successful fire Wednesday.
2. Whatever you want to say about the sharpies on Wall Street, they are pikers compared to Max‘s and Chuck‘s friends down on the farm when it comes to picking the pockets of taxpayers and consumers, or concocting a system in which the farmers get all the gains while the government assumes most of the risk.
3. A property contract is messy and binding, and doesn‘t allow for ready extrication. (As renters, my husband and I are marital pikers – not really married at all.) Taking the property plunge, any half–aware couple must feel a shadow cross their minds – images of what happens to that dream house, ever escalating in value, if the romance ends in tears.