Betting With the House s Money

The assumption here unstated and highly questionable is that the US will be able to sell an unlimited amount of government debt at low interest rates for the foreseeable future. There is no other country in the world where fiscal conservatives would want to be associated with such a high stakes gamble.

The Ministry of Sports and Tourism monitors casinos, betting offices, organizers of totalizators, computer (electronic) games and other gaming institutions (possessing slot machines, or other gaming equipment or devices)

That is a big gamble, given that the UK now appears to be shuffling towards the EU exit. Certainly, the new status quo looks unsustainable, with 26 countries moving towards greater integration while the 27th remains aloof.

Bush s Gambling Debts

Gambler s Ruin

Quit gambling.

so we're hedging our bets here.

The Gambler of North Korea

Do you like to gamble?

Abe s Safe Bet

Europe s High Risk Gamble

I bet he doesn't make it.

I'll stake my reputation on it.

So, they took a bet that no one would win by January of '05, and I took a bet that someone would win.

And now all bets are off.

Officially, I don't gamble but ...

Obama s Burmese Gamble

The Law on Profit Oriented Games and Gambling Houses,

Humanity s Stake in Gaza

Betting on the Tortoise in Japan

I'll bet all your shoes match.

China s Bad Growth Bet

Sarkozy s Three Way NATO Bet

They were so happy. They couldn't have been more proud.

A Plutocrats Summit?

And his was gambling, compulsively.

We have two rolls of the dice to get this right.

Translate that one. I bet they can't.

I bet a lot of you do, right?

This is what statisticians technically call a damn fine bet.

And, yeah, I'm proud, too.

We are proud of it.

Knowledge of languages

So this is what we find. Risk tolerance, which is the gambling, what we find is that when you're in the high power pose condition, 86 percent of you will gamble.

Holding gold can also make sense for middle class and poor households in countries for example, China and India that significantly limit access to other financial investments. For most others, gold is just another gamble that one can make.

The gamble has been that a solid, durable recovery would enable banks and households to rebuild their balance sheets quickly enough to avoid the need for additional bailouts. But, so far, that gamble isn t working as well or as rapidly as hoped.

Here is a map. All they have is a casino on it.

They actually feel that they're going to win even at games of chance.

I'll bet you a hundred dollars that Tom is gay.

The second case relates to cross border gambling services.

Compulsive gamblers are experts at self deception.

So it had been a huge gamble, but it had paid off.

Just so proud.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market. For the first 85 years, this would have been a very uninteresting gamble, generating an average return of only around 2 a year.