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Benjamin Morris at FiveThirtyEight:

Thus, our best (and perhaps slightly conservative) estimate is that the Packers cost themselves about 7.9 percent of a win by kicking rather than going for two, and this whole thing could have been avoided if NFL coaches took the time to sit down and learn some basic percentages….

Another year, another year with NFL coaches not doing their jobs and not being taken to task for it. By now, coaches have no excuse for not having mastered basic decisions like these.

Here is Michael Hudson, the best economist in the world, telling truths to Germany’s Roman Baudzus of wirtschaftsfacts:

http://www.cashkurs.com/kategorie/wirtschaftsfacts/beitrag/ckwirtschaftsfacts-in-conversation-with-michael-hudson/

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Tennis star and world number one, Novak Djokovic, talks about match-fixing at day one of the Australian Open. There are allegations that tennis authorities have failed to deal with widespread match-fixing. During a tournament in St. Petersburg in 2007, Djokovic’s team were offered to throw a match for £154,000 (Note: some reports indicate the amount to be £110,000) The 28-year-old winner of ten Grand Slam titles believes that match-fixing at the top end of the game is not such a big problem nowadays. “It’s just speculation,” Djokovic said.

"Inconceivable" ... but there is more to come.

Black Monday Lows...

But credit sees more to come...

James Pindell gets a bit ahead of himself:

If the Republican race were immediately to become a two-person contest between Trump and someone else, it is logical to assume that the other person would have more support.

That would be true if most current non-Trump supporters would all rally behind the other candidate, but there is some evidence that suggests that in a two-way race Trump would run even with or slightly ahead of Cruz and Rubio: