Prediction markets | Fortune telling | Economist.com

One of the old and more shallow reasons to be a Republican was it meant you were rich! Sort of like a status symbol, it went along with having a "trophy" wife, gambling, etc. Now that has all fizzled away with the base being more likely a religious tongue talking Christian Zionist enslaved to Neoconning bankers, televangelists and big media moguls. Here is a reader forward where now you can get rich off betting on a country going broke! Get your kicks at the Economist