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...helps track unusual betting patterns. But in a report last week, a British government committee agreed that professional "layers" should be registered. Earlier this month, search engines Yahoo and Google said they would stop carrying banner ads for online casinos, fearing legal reprisals by U.S. prosecutors. Will such restrictions dent the market? After all, the WTO ruled last month that the U.S. cannot legally prevent its citizens from...
MUHLENKAMP: We know some people who regret buying tech stocks. We don't know anybody who regrets putting money in their home. If mortgage rates got to 7%, it would make a dent. But rates now are at 5.5% or so, and long-term studies show that this is a normal mortgage rate. We don't expect housing starts to keep growing. But the publicly traded builders are taking market share from the neighborhood man with a hammer. That has become their edge, and these are companies that sell for nine times earnings...
...short periods of time. Since 9/11, owners of these facilities have feared that a few such attacks, indeed even just one, would keep customers away long enough to bring bankruptcy. The financial cost of adequately protecting the thousands of such venues, assuming that was feasible, would put a large dent in profits or tax revenues. The effects of such attacks on the U.S. economy could be devastating. For bin Laden, who has called upon his followers to destroy the American economy, such considerations surely fit with the goal of sweeping away the superpower to make way for a global theocracy...
...TURNER is already a goddess. But ISMAIL MERCHANT'S casting of Turner as a Hindu deity in his upcoming film The Goddess has outraged some British Hindus, who plan to picket the movie. (Did they learn nothing from protests against The Passion of the Christ, which did not exactly dent ticket sales?) Having Turner play Shakti--the personification of a female divinity who wears a necklace of men's skulls--reduces the goddess to a "musical joke," says a Hindu group. Of course, some who saw Turner's last try at a dramatic role in 1985's Mad Max Beyond...
...hoping to get can make a big difference,” he said. “No, we’re not going to be able to prevent every voting problem that happens, but I think we’re going to be able to make a big dent...