gambler's fallacy

From BBC News 4 August 2016: Notwithstanding the obvious incidental question over the integrity of reporting company profits seemingly subject to huge sways driven by luck, has Mr Mullen ironically fallen foul of a logical fallacy that forms part of the bedrock of bookmakers' [long term]...

OK, I'll await the howls of derisive laughter, but bear with me... John Maynard Keynes is much in the news at the moment as we try to spend our way out of financial catastrophe. An anecdote of him reported in a news bulletin a few days ago said that he was staying in Monte Carlo and heard that...