More than that, Levin also implicitly suggested that there was something wrong per se with betting that the housing market would crash, suggesting that while it's good to make money from good things happening, it's nefarious to put yourself in a position to make money when bad things happen.
Things aren't looking good for Jaime next season – as a betting woman I'd say that it's unlikely people (for which read Cersei) are going to be terribly happy when they find out he let Tyrion go free.
Those God-fearing Free Presbyterians the Paisleys do not approve of betting, which they see as being as sinful as supping the "devil's buttermilk" (ie booze).
They are betting on the eventual paralysis of the Rouhani government, and their most important card is his defeat in these nuclear negotiations.
Paulson is renowned for betting against an overheated housing market before the financial crisis netted his fund $15bn and cemented his personal fortune, estimated by Forbes at $11.2bn.
The problem of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals is linked to the proliferation of betting shops in some communities and so we will continue to argue for Scotland to have full responsibility for the regulation of gambling".
Bookmakers, already week after last week's budget raised the tax on lucrative fixed odds betting machines from 20% to 25%, dipped again on reports that the weekend's Premier League football fixtures were bad news, with all the favourites winning and costing them £20m.
A struggling city, decimated by the decline of its manufacturing base, had seemingly reinvented itself by – of all things – betting big on culture.
The company attracted criticism for a poster that suggested betting on the chances of two elderly women crossing a road before being run over by an approaching lorry.
Along with betting shops, mobile phone retailers have been among the types of businesses keen to open high street stores in recent years.
The only important variable is when that moment comes; I'm betting that Rand hopes it lasts until sometime in the fall of 2015.
