gambling

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Clarence Barron, this magazine’s founder, called investing “the application of money to practical ends,” as opposed to gambling, where “the gains of the successful merely offset the losses of the unsuccessful.”

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour called the ruling a win, as various states have filed lawsuits against Kalshi, arguing its operations constitute illegal gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

But in 2019, under pressure from China, Hun Sen banned online gambling.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

They’re running systems borrowed from gambling and behavioral psychology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Even when it came to arguing about God’s existence, he kept coming back to those crass gambling Frenchmen.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife