Tag Archives: Lottery
What’s A Billion?
The numbers boggle the mind. Talk about rags to riches. Overnight. It was an American news story that I probably would have missed if I hadn’t been on vacation in the US and consuming American media. The rags may be metaphorical, but the riches certainly aren’t. Sometime when I wasn’t looking (because I don’t play […]
Food For Thought
It is well known that, with their approximately 14-million-to-one odds against hitting the jackpot, lottery tickets are not part of any sound retirement portfolio. Despite this, 34 percent of Canadians in a 2014 poll reported that they played the lotto in the hopes of supplementing their future retirement income. If judging the likelihood of a lottery win […]
The Lottery
I was going to comment on Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address, which was last night, but there is an event tonight that is of greater importance to most Americans: the Powerball lottery draw. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get to Obama’s speech, or maybe I’ll just write off his eight years in office as […]
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