Betting

The Natural, authored by Bernard Malamud is an incredible novel that touches the surface on many human emotions such as insecurity, love, and most profoundly pride. Pride and overconfidence are two obstacles the main character Roy Hobbs faces through the entire story. Roy has a dream, though he may be older he feels now it is his time to become the greatest baseball player to have ever existed. Roy has had earlier setbacks and therefore is not allowing anything in his way this time around. He…

My internship provided me with a crash course on how the market operates. I worked as a credit analyst in our leveraged finance office. My supervisor encouraged me to watch a weekly telecast online called Commodities Countdown on Stocksharts.com. This is where my interest in commodities and the risk associated with them began. I watched how certain positions traded throughout the summer, but I mainly focused in on Gold and Silver. At the start of the game the first few stocks I invested in were…

of the Reds continue his winning ways. The placards and advertisements had heralded the Germani lad as the circus favorite, him reputedly having the finest quadriga of Libyans ever yoked and traced. They were well- publicized by the promoters and betting-house bookkeepers; Tuscus, Tigris, Victor and Raptore were almost household names before they ever set one foot on the racetrack. Whatever else of Rome the Alexandrians hadn’t taken to,…

The mid nineteenth century heralded for America the beginnings of a globalization of economies from all corners of the world. With America’s recovery from The Great Depression complete as well as the significant production and economic growth provided through the economic boom that World War II produced, America was left standing as the biggest economic and political powerhouse of the 1960s. While America was establishing it’s place among other nations as well as aiding Japan with its recovery,…

The Whole Rotten Lot An important theme in the book, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is the radical difference in lifestyles between the rich and the poor. The page of this book that best illustrates this concept is page sixty-five. At this point in the story line, Katniss has already been stripped from her home in District 12 and shuttled off to the Capitol to compete in the 74th annual Hunger Games. Katniss’ transition from life in District 12 to life in the Capitol is a tremendous one,…

pay the athletes who bring in the money. A lot of money exchanges hands through illegal gambling on college sports. There are also some legal gambling options in certain casinos, for example, where the casinos control gambling and there is no issue betting on your team. The FBI estimates that more than 2.5 billion dollars is illegally wagered annually on the three-week tournament March Madness post-season…

Why wrestling should stay in the Olympics? Since the 2020 Olympics were coming up the Olympic committee wanted to take the sport of wrestling to be removed from the Olympics but if you think about it what was the sport that began the Olympics and was one of the first sports. Wrestling has been around since the first Olympic games and has always been around. Then only Olympics wrestling has not been in was 1900. In the Olympics there are 180 countries who participate and most of them have at…

Gus Van Sant created his 9th film, Gerry, in 2002. It was caused audiences to split, from those striking the film down, claiming it was tedious and boring, while others called it an art piece. I can see both sides. I was tempted to skip past the lengthy scenes while watching, however, the further I got into the film, the more I realized its significance. Gerry is very long, but there’s reasons for it. Gus Van Sant used the landscape as more than the setting; it signified the character’s inner…

A very familiar theme continues to hover over Mexico specifically when it refers to the economic woes the political system continues to mismanage. Politicians that simply run for office to help themselves, while screwing the Mexican over time and time again. It is a behavior that has been in place since the Spanish conquistadors took over, by introducing new policies that benefited the white European while physically, morally, economically, and culturally destroying all social progress for the…

huge. Dalio attracted large streams of money. Many hedge funds make concentrated bets in order to make huge returns. For example, George Soros shorted some ten billion dollars’ worth of sterling in 1992. John Paulson made several billion dollars betting on the subprime. On the contrary, Dalio said “Given that I’m never sure, I don’t want to have any concentrated bets.” Many hedge funds deviated from their investment styles and become overconfident after a successful big bet (For example John…