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But the really interesting thing about Robertson's problems is the way they highlight the key role played in the recent travails of the world economy by hedge funds--or, to use the terminology preferred by the IMF, "highly leveraged investors."
Throughout the story of Brian Arthur's travails, people make the kind of dramatic, pithy remarks that almost never get uttered in real life.
The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
The travails of the French franc in the '20s were thoroughly modern, and the speculative attacks that brought down the Bretton Woods system of exchange rates in the early '70s were almost as big, compared with the size of the economies involved, as the biggest recent blowouts.
Insofar as she's a feminist, she's a pop feminist--an Oprah or Lifetime feminist, a cheerleader for women in all their travails.