Sunshine Flint's "Vegas glitz without the gambling" looks beyond the craps table at the city's newest high-end options for dinner, nightlife and spa pampering.

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What if they sent their traders back to Las Vegas where they could continue their taste for gambling without risk to the public, and started focusing their business on activities that would grow the real economy?

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Propositions to legalise or expand commercial gambling are never without controversy, yet they never stop surfacing.

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But exchanges are not a panacea and, frankly, can do more harm than good by accelerating the number of underinsured without also protecting the consumers from literally gambling with their health.

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Although the practice was not prohibited, it created a massive market for gambling on companies' credit worthiness without limiting those bets to the value of the underlying obligations.

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Without stops, the business of speculation borders on gambling.

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But without inside information of material significance, investment loses its falsifiable basis and becomes a form of gambling.

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According to popular legend, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who, while gambling, told his butler to put some meat between two slices of bread so he could eat without interrupting the game and getting grease on the cards.

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