"The ban on sports betting does exactly what……" — James Surowiecki

"The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich."

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises.…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment… — Judy Biggert
But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and… — Julie Bishop
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the… — John Boehner
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his… — John Boehner
I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit… — Sean Penn
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful… — Hugh Downs
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its… — Charles Krauthammer
We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns… — Major Owens
If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it. — Pete Stark
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation… — Mahatma Gandhi
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you… — Elizabeth Bibesco
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of… — Kenneth Clarke

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