
This is what got me thinking — just because I’m sitting at an investment bank wearing a suit — is betting 100’s of millions of dollars on the Brexit Vote failing, on Clinton beating Trump, on the Bank of England cutting Interest rates REALLY that different to betting that Tottenham will beat Aston Villa at the weekend?
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