The government needs to start backing energy winners, instead of gambling with consumers' pockets and the climate".
Chrysler is gambling that consumers will like the radical styling of these new vehicles, and that its Dodge division can launch this new line with just a station wagon.
It ends the ability of banks to gamble with consumer accounts and brings order to a system that was in rodeo mode.
Buying a used car is always a gamble, but consumers can improve their odds through the type of vehicle background checks that Mr. Rosenthal conducted.
The computer industry is willing to gamble that consumers would rather have a cheaper box that could be either a computer monitor or a TV than have the less complicated, high-definition-TV set that the consumer-electronics industry favors.
"Pinning the U.K.'s energy hopes on an unsubstantiated, polluting fuel is a massive gamble, and consumers and the climate will end up paying the price," the environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday in a statement from London.
In fact, debts from gambling and other consumer debts can be erased, but not education debt.
Philip Graf, chairman of the British Gambling Commission, noted that his agency currently had limited control over "suspicious betting transactions" because it regulated less than 20 percent of online gambling by British consumers, who instead do most of their betting offshore.
Previous studies have examined the neural mechanisms of economic behavior by offering participants a succession of independent gambles or unrelated consumer choices (Daw et al., 2006; Plassmann et al., 2007; Lim et al., 2013).
I know there's a soul to this place, beyond its reputation for alcoholism, small-time gambling and resistance to consumer trends.
