Monthly Archives: March 2007

Recession in the US in 2007? Seems like the Bears will lose this one.

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— Warning: TradeSports is unregulated in the Netherlands Antilles (a place that lives off drug trafficking and money laundering). — InTrade is unregulated in Ireland. TradeSports / InTrade are not members of the Independent Betting Arbitration Service. — TradeSports — … Continue reading →

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American Idol prediction markets: about 60,000 transactions at InTrade-TradeSports

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— Warning: TradeSports is unregulated in the Netherlands Antilles (a place that lives off drug trafficking and money laundering). — InTrade is unregulated in Ireland. TradeSports / InTrade are not members of the Independent Betting Arbitration Service. — TradeSports — … Continue reading →

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Bo Cowgill’s Google has been 60 times more useful to Midas Oracle than David Pennock’s Yahoo!.

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Visits to Midas Oracle .org from search engines (September 26, 2006, to March 30, 2007): Google Search: 16,001 Yahoo Search: 270 (((All that said in all due respect to David Pennock. )))

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Midas Oracle’s coverage of the prediction markets is massive and colorful.

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

by Dallas

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DIY PREDICTION MARKETS: Foresight Exchange or Inkling Markets or Flutter??

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson (PDF file): [...] I created the first internal corporate idea futures at Xanadu in 1989, and in 1994 my design and inspiration led to one of the first web markets, then called Idea Futures, for which I received … Continue reading →

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Are Exchange-Traded Futures Poised to Revolutionize the Credit Derivative Market?

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Futures Industry magazine: The credit derivatives market is one of today’s most important over-the-counter markets. The growth of the market has outperformed all expectations, rising from a notional value of $5 trillion in 2004 to over $20 trillion in 2006, … Continue reading →

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Internet Gambling: The World Trade Organization busts the United States of America.

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Background on the dispute between Antigua and the US of A on internet gambling and betting: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT: DISPUTE DS285 — United States — Measures Affecting the Cross-Border Supply of Gambling and Betting Services March 30, 2007′s WTO ruling: PDF … Continue reading →

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BetOnSports founder Gary Kaplan, fugitive — BUSTED

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

New York Times: Authorities Arrest Founder of Internet Gambling Site

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Your blog is linked to by the New York Times. How many incoming visitors?

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Not that many. Danny Sullivan (a search engine expert) got linked to by a March 15′s New York Times article (Google Adds a Safeguard on Privacy for Searchers): [...] To date, 645 visits in all. [...] I’m not impressed. Marginal … Continue reading →

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Big trader to the other traders: LET’S LEAVE TRADESPORTS-INTRADE EN MASSE.

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

(No pun intended.) “Dark Horse”: Dark*Horse Posted Thu March 29 2007 08:07 AM The underlying question I have after reading this thread is why people are so attached to [TradeSports-InTrade]. Just walk away, as [TradeSports-InTrade] itself suggested in response to … Continue reading →

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