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Podcast: The Gambling Files
Episode: RTFM 237 – BONUS episode with author Jon D Cohen on how the US got it wrong
Description: Yep, it’s a special bonus episode, and it kicks off with Jon chatting with special interim stand-in temporary co-host Melanie Ellis of Northridge Law fame, and they somehow manage to not talk about tax in the UK [0:00 – 18:45]. No, they saved that for 238…Then Jon and Fintan meet Jonathan D Cohen, whose book Losing Big: America’s reckless bet on sports gambling is an incisive look at how things progressed post-PASPA – and how the US got crucial aspects really, really wrong. It’s not an anti-gambling book by any stretch, it’s a realistic look at how things could h...