Comments on: Will The Economist manage its own prediction markets? YES or NO?? http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/04/27/will-the-economist-manage-its-own-prediction-markets-yes-or-no/ Prediction Markets For All Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Chris. F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/04/27/will-the-economist-manage-its-own-prediction-markets-yes-or-no/#comment-15471 Chris. F. Masse Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:56:09 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/04/27/will-the-economist-manage-its-own-prediction-markets-yes-or-no/#comment-15471 Mike, I saw in the Wikipedia page about the instances of "social networking websites" that the prediction exchanges (betting exchanges) are not listed. Which also may explain why they decided to publish a blog post on prediction markets (on Friday) BEFORE the competition was officially closed (on the next Sunday). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites I don't feel they are going to go into prediction market land. Which in return will beg the question on whether The Financial Times made a good decision in creating a sub-exchange. Mike,

I saw in the Wikipedia page about the instances of “social networking websites” that the prediction exchanges (betting exchanges) are not listed. Which also may explain why they decided to publish a blog post on prediction markets (on Friday) BEFORE the competition was officially closed (on the next Sunday).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....g_websites

I don’t feel they are going to go into prediction market land.

Which in return will beg the question on whether The Financial Times made a good decision in creating a sub-exchange.

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/04/27/will-the-economist-manage-its-own-prediction-markets-yes-or-no/#comment-15468 Mike Linksvayer Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:06:40 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/04/27/will-the-economist-manage-its-own-prediction-markets-yes-or-no/#comment-15468 They couldn't decide -- a social network could be a feature of just about any product. They couldn’t decide — a social network could be a feature of just about any product.

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