Iowa Electronic Markets: only 3,000 speculators

Alan Boyle:

Neumann estimates that 3,000 people or so [COULD BE LESS] use their online accounts for the presidential contract-trading.

Pitiful.

Ludicrous minute numbers for a prediction exchange that is on the scene since day one (1988).

Laughable numbers.

Ridiculous numbers.

The commercial prediction exchanges (InTrade-TradeSports, BetFair, etc.) make a better job at evangelizing the prediction markets on politics (not just on US politics) than IEM.

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