The National Lottery is taking advantage of a loophole that allows children as young as 16 to gamble hundreds of pounds a week online. There are fears the loophole could lead to an epidemic of gambling among future generations, with the latest figures revealing that 16 and 17 year olds spent £47 million on National … Read more
Gamblers will place a bet quicker following a loss rather than a win, according to psychologists, as part of a syndrome called ‘post-loss speeding’. In experiments, European researchers found people who lost a bet involving real money started the next game up to 20 per cent faster after a loss. In one of the four experiments, … Read more
‘This time next year, we’ll be millionaires.’ That was the regular boast of Del Boy to brother Rodney in TV comedy Only Fools And Horses when he had stumbled across ‘the next big thing’. But in recent times such hype has been applied to investing in crypto-currencies – an easy way of turning tech nerds … Read more