Posts tagged "gambling"
Friday, February 5, 2021
There’s this notion that, because their gambling takes place inside the New York Stock Exchange instead of a casino or at a horserace , it’s more respectable, but I don’t entirely buy it.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This cartoon compares this blatant economic trickery to the “shell game ” or cup-and-ball routine, both of which being sleight-of-hand used for centuries to con desperate or unsuspecting dupes out of money by presenting them with what appears to be a simple gambling game which is in fact impossible to win…
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I was examining some gas pumps at a Costco, and it struck me that they looked sort of like slot machines. I thought the visual would be clever, and the metaphor would be an appropriate and funny way of describing the consumer’s relationship with oil speculators…
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