Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the
big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First
National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil
Company is located.
If Goldacre really wants to stick his neck out, why doesn't he try arguing against a rich, powerful, bullying Climate - Change establishment which includes all three British main political parties, the
National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the President of the USA, the EU, the UN, most schools and universities, the BBC, most of the print media, the Australian Government, the New Zealand Government, CNBC, ABC, the New York Times, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche
Bank, most of the rest of the City, the wind farm industry, all the
Big Oil
companies, any number of rich charitable foundations, the Church of England and so on?
Mastercard Asia - Pacific co-president Ari Sarker has opined that the world's second -
biggest payments
company would be «very happy to look at» supporting
national digital currencies that are issued and backed by central
banks.