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Frazer: End Madness Pools

Brian Frazer thinks ending March Madness pools will help get the economy back on track. He sites employment consultants Challenger, Gray and Christmas who claim that lost productivity due to the 19-day event will cost employers more than 3.8 billion dollars. Or, and Frazer likes this idea better, “we can introduce versions of March Madness pools to other countries that are more productive than us, to bring them down to our level.”

Brian Frazer writes the Hollywoodland column for Los Angeles Magazine.

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