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The movie would have us believe that someone could get away with betting that a shot could be made on a player's turn and then being able to take the next shot because the player bought his opponent's turn and therefore the subsequent shot was still his.
As Tarantino had Michael Madsen say 'I'm betting you're a big Lee Marvin fan'.
I'm betting you're a big Crocodile Dundee fan.
That I just found out doing an "after viewing" search on Matthew Settle; betting I saw him in "I know what you did last summer" originally renting the movie because I am a "Samatha Mathis" fan.
Anyone that has been involved with the rush of sports betting can relate to the plot and characters.
And he is betting on Trump to open the way for him to achieve this goal.
Nevertheless, a dispassionate observer might point out that for someone with limited resources and opportunities for policy reform to keep betting double-or-nothing on neo-liberalism is a strategy that has a well-deserved name: “Gambler’s Ruin.”
It is exactly that sort of clarity that betting on predictions seeks to obtain.
The purpose of betting, of course, is not to declare winners and losers; it is to replace endless, pointless arguments with a clear determination of whose understanding of reality is closer to the truth.
And yet, unfortunately, when it comes to achieving that goal, betting has consistently failed.
When it comes to learning about the world, betting on outcomes beats arguments that settle nothing.
Righting the EU ConstitutionThe prospect of multiple referenda on the European Union Constitution has dramatically altered the betting on ratification.
So the smart money right now is betting on the peso, not against it.
Trump may have been issuing a threat and establishing an official red line through his favorite means of communication; he also might merely have been making a prediction, and betting against North Korea’s technical prowess.
The march towards higher interest rates has already begun in the United States, where the Federal Reserve is betting on a fundamental market asymmetry.
After all, no policy can succeed if those who shape it are betting on its failure.
Here’s betting that the “teens” is a decade in which artificial intelligence hits escape velocity, and starts to have an economic impact on par with the emergence of India and China.
Iran is betting on revolutionary changes within the power structure of the Middle East to help it achieve its strategic goal.
As long as banks are permitted to operate this way, the banks’ supervisors are betting on the banks’ ability to earn their way out of their current problems – even if the value of their assets doesn’t now significantly exceed their liabilities.
Of course, the government could be betting on an oil-price resurgence; after all, prices have historically bounced back when Russia was in need.
Countries like the US and the UK, which are accumulating debt at a record pace, are betting that deficit spending will eventually pay off in a stronger economy.
In other words, the market is betting that the dollar will fall gradually in the next five years, and that the US current-account deficit will narrow without a financial crisis.
Implicit in this definition is a suggestion about why it is so difficult for “smart money” to profit by betting against bubbles: the psychological contagion promotes a mindset that justifies the price increases, so that participation in the bubble might be called almost rational.
Smart investors are now betting that the most recent economic data will show an annual GDP growth rate of 3% for the second quarter of 2003.
They are also betting that the current third quarter may well show a growth rate as high as 5% per year.
The EU is, at last, beginning to understand that betting its future on services will not be enough to safeguard the European socioeconomic model.
When a government commits to improving education, it is betting that equipping its citizens for an unknowable future will yield broad-based, society-wide progress.
China is betting on an old geopolitical proposition.
With the BRI, China is betting on Mackinder and Marco Polo.
The US is betting more on Mahan and Kennan.
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