“To reduce gambling ” is, unfortunately, the axiom at the base of all mainstream political discourse that deals with gambling policy. Under this attitude, gambling is itself an evil and the goal of gambling policy should be to reduce the …

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In his victorious 2003 campaign, Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to exact financial concessions from wealthy casino tribes.

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AS Pafer, which organises gambling on board ships, became the second company to receive the long-distance gambling operator licence in Estonia, Estonian Tax and Customs Board said. Äripäev Online reported that so far, …

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Chat Roulette (NSFA) is a textbook random search and matching process. Except that it is missing a key ingredient: an instrument for screening and signaling

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Gambling largely concertinas these emotions into the time it takes just to play a hand, or the minute a decent horse needs to cover five furlongs. You can understand why Verdi has his protagonists square up over cards in La Traviata, …

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Every other week my friends and I have a poker night. Last week, after a friend of mine cleaned us up, he said, “ Poker is a lot like investing, you have to be very patient.” Immediately we started discussing how playing poker and …

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Investing Lessons from Poker

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Bad as the past two years have been, are we better off with unfettered “ casino capitalism” than with the plethora of regulations and controls the world is now heading towards?

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FT.com | FTdotcomment | Is casino capitalism worth a gamble?

“Someone who has made a successful living as a poker player for a few years would more likely be a good trader than someone who hasn’t,” said Aaron Brown, a 53-year-old former poker pro who is now a risk manager at AQR Capital …

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Image: Wikimedia Commons Ouch. The Miami New Times has more on the casino that denied the man the winnings stated on the machine: On Sunday, a gambler.

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Casino Denies Man $166 Million Jackpot | Business Pundit

new economics solutions for the interlinked credit, climate and energy crises.

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Mervyn King is right about casino banking « the nef triple crunch blog