Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.
I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.
Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip.
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.
And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.
One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.
The best part about poker is there's no down side.