| I try never to forget that even for the powerful and their patsies, this is all a surreal and confusing game. |
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| To their shame, these business leaders view shareholders as patsies, not partners. |
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| They are no longer patsies for slick-haired white lawyers from the city. And some Indians do not exactly help their own case. |
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| The advent of credit derivatives seems to have forced down these premiums. In this case, the patsies are other financial institutions. |
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| I noted that you suggested that if we're going to be at the table we shouldn't be patsies. |
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| I'm sympathetic that they may have been unwitting patsies to a scheme that was wrong. |
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| Maybe they figured they would know too much to be reliable patsies. |
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| These days, we barely even blink at the fact honours are routinely handed out by prime ministers to their mates or to establishment patsies. |
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| So the patsies are those investors who pick the below-average managers. |
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