Sentences with phrase «dollars as a gamble»

For now think of investing dollars instead of exchanging dollars as a gamble — the first factor.

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It is designed to make Wall Street appear as a savior, not an arsonist — and to depict the Fed and Treasury as protecting the welfare of American citizens by shoveling billions of dollars at the banks whose gambles have caused the crisis.

Even those enlightened enough to recognize that addictive gambling is as much a disease as alcoholism or narcotics addiction often forget that gambling carries a staggering extra penalty: the terrifying mountain of debt built up over the years, the thousands upon thousands of dollars owed to sharks and bookies.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign warGambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign wargambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

As competition for gambling dollars has intensified, the state's fiscal watchdog is warning that New York's Off - Track Betting corporations could face fiscal insolvency.

School districts all over this country then gambled millions of dollars on technological quick - fixes, even as ample research tells us that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of metal detectors.

Online gaming is a great environment for the gambling industry as it provides consumers with the ability to play in a social, fun way and has become a multi-billion dollar business.

It is gambling if you pick a random stock because it has an interesting sounding name and bet your dollars as if you would bet a running horse.

One investigator described dog fighting as a «huge underground subculture» with different tiers from two people fighting their dogs just to find out who is tougher, to those who breed and train dogs for fights that involve gambling, to those that breed, train, and feed the dogs as if they are professional athletes and organize and operate the fights as a business with high dollar bets.

It's not owned by a PR firms like the main alarmists sites such as RealClimate.org and DeSmogBlog.com indeed are, with million dollar funding sources, the later case an Internet banking mogul who was convicted of money laundering of his online gambling funds:

For example, I used it in a case where someone fraudulently sold ditch company shares worth several hundred thousand dollars (in Colorado, water is gold) that he didn't own (a transaction that could not be unwound because the buyer was a bona fide purchaser for value and the seller had apparent authority as a trustee of a trust owning the shares even though he didn't have the actual authority to sell them under the trust) and then spent the money he received before he was discovered (if I recall correctly, for gambling debts).

However, I nixed that in favor of my second favorite passage: Ely's conclusion (also edited) where he promises that» [U.S. Dollars and Venezuelan Bolivars] and the like will quickly fade into financial history, just as tulipmania [and the German mark, the Argentinian peso and the Zimbabwean dollar] did, serving solely to remind future generations of the folly of gambling on illusions of value [like fiat currency].»