Casino Gambling Guide

A clip from Bryant Gumbel’s Real Sports segment on HBO about illegal profiteering from gambling in pro tennis, featuring the authoritative voice of author Michael Mewshaw.

The 200th installment of Perspectives Weekly looks at the launch (and crash) of the first legal and regulated online gambling site in Canada! Not only that, but Barney Frank brought his new online gaming bill to committee this week! It’s one a heck of a show!

Gambling with Crookston’s future. Against all odds. Betting it all based on one’s gut feeling. Only happens inside a casino? Think so? Hi and welcome to the Crookston Documentary Channel here on You Tube. I have a history of traveling through Las Vegas, stopping, seeing the sights but never dropping even a nickel. Gambling isn’t something I usually do. Unfortunately I got tied up in a game of high stakes in Crookston from 2006-2009 and lost 000 before I “crapped out”. Yet my high stakes, losing gamble, wasn’t the only game going in town. The Crookston City Council was busy with their own high stakes game as they dreamed of building a no frills (a huge hulking building) to house three hockey rinks out on the far extreme edge of the city. The cost: million. For: A declining youth population (a 50% decline since the 1960’s). Crookston has, recently, been pestered with a factory closing, layoffs, and a ever rising burden of retirees and the elderly. Almost as if ones back was against the wall, anxious, not thinking things through, a bet was hastily placed. Crookston’s most powerful city council in the city’s long history? Based on the gross amounts of funds flowing through city government (for all programs and projects under their control) and their ability to radically alter Crookston future direction through their official authority to act, this council is thee most powerful in Crookstons long history. More then three of these current council members have already …

Radley Balko testifies before at a Congressional about the online gambling ban. Barney Frank and Ron Paul attend.

Geat rant, summary of problems and some good solutions on fixing the US economy from Dylan Ratigan on Morning Meeting. Copyright MSNBC 2009 Out of Order jobs job losses unemployment stimulus House economic reform Barney Frank Wall Street bankers bank Dow S&P 500 market dollar collapse recession depression collapse Goldman Sachs JP Morgan Wells Fargo credit card reform too big to fail TBTF Geithner Bernanke usdx Fed Federal Reserve interest rates financial reform regulatory AIG profits TARP …