Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Gambling as a public health issue (Lancet)

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  Here's a warning about gambling from the Lancet: The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling    October 24, 2024 "Executive S...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Gambling on sports, by and on athletes

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  Now that sports betting is legal, and apps allow people to bet on particular events within a game as it unfolds, there is concern that pla...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Gambling in video games--entry level gambling for minors?

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  In-game gambling for video game tools has become an unregulated form of online gambling that may provide minors with their first gambling ...
Monday, February 5, 2024

The NFL embraces sports gambling for fans but not for players

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 The Superbowl is in Las Vegas, and gambling is being embraced by the NFL for fans, but not for players and other NFL employees. The NYT has...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Money Laundering

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  Financial regulation plays a big role in law enforcement, by helping investigators to follow the money, which is often easier than followi...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Super (bowl) markets

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 There's also a football game, but here are some other, related markets (gambling, advertising, deal making...). Gambling: WSJ: Watching...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Lobbying for sports gambling, with cigars and whisky

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 Do addictions go together?  The NY Times has the story of how legalized (online, sports) gambling lobbyists wooed state legislators with wh...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Legal lotteries and illegal numbers games: some history

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The NY Times published a nostalgic look back at the widespread illegal gambling on the "numbers" that preceded the introduction o...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Gambling and Sports

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A class of repugnant transactions (gambling, subject to many legal restrictions designed to limit its availability) and  protected transact...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

Repugnance watch: sports gambling is largely illegal, while fantasy sports leagues are thriving

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Itai Fainmesser points me to this story in the NY Times, about how some things are illegal while similar things are legal--the legal disti...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Virtual greyhound racing: technology meets repugnance

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I've written before about how greyhound racing is a transaction that many find repugnant. The Economist reports that technology may be ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Greyhound racing: a repugnant transaction with shifting coalitions

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Lots of animal lovers find dog races a repugnant transaction, and it has faced ballot measures and bans . As you would expect, firms that r...
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