Anywhere you choose to put your money where the outcome is uncertain is gambling. Wall St's investment offerings have so many degrees of uncertainty the no one can assess their actual risk. Stocks like Enron and MCI Worldcom were sold as safe low risk investments for conservative go-long investors, and the astute analysts had no reason to suspect otherwise. At least in Las Vegas you walk up to a blackjack table knowing exactly the odds are the same no matter where you sit.