What tidbits are you missing, resulting in betting on the wrong horse?
As for today's uptick to $135 ,another report from Bloomberg News blamed traders engaged in wrong-way betting.
A visit to Mr. Hahn's memorabilia-filled office, in fact, serves as a reminder that it would be wrong to bet against German companies.
Previous studies have shown that the rostral cingulate zone and the nucleus accumbens, areas of the brain believed to be part of that learning system, activate when people make wrong predictions in a betting game and prompt a change in strategy.
Clarium has had three consecutive losing years down 23% in 2010, 25% in 2009 and 4.5% in 2008 by betting wrong, variously, on rising oil prices and a sinking dollar.
Hafez Assad supported the first Gulf War, and Dennis Ross, who was President Clinton's special envoy to the Middle East, said that Bashar Assad had "bet wrong" in refusing to support America this time.
One wrong bet in a leveraged scenario in the public markets can wipe out a fund several times over.
The Big Three made the wrong bet in the 1990s when they decided to put all their eggs in the truck basket — ceding virtually the entire car market to their Asian rivals.
The structure of the state is visibly fraying.The French government, which placed its bet wrong in 1992, is now desperately trying to rescue Mr Zeroual and his government.
The running narrative at Mr. Milken's confab is quite the opposite of the national mood: Many of the attendees seem to side, or at least sympathize, with Goldman, out of a belief that Goldman had done nothing wrong in helping clients place bets that the housing bubble was going to burst.
Mistakes come from betting wrong but making a decision and engaging in decisive action.
