http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/07/17/intrade-cftc-sean-park/ Prediction Markets, etc. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/07/17/intrade-cftc-sean-park/#comment-20764 Jason Ruspini Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:06:23 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=7590#comment-20764 You want to say "public interest exemption" instead of "exempt commodities".  The former is what the IEM and others argue for.  Only I mentioned "exempt commodities" as part of a possibly more robust jurisdictional framework with respect to gaming laws, though election, tax and policy markets with the appropriate trading restrictions in place are clearly "excluded commodities".  I don't see the CFTC ruling such markets out as excluded commodities even if none are launched anytime soon because of the overarching political environment. You want to say “public interest exemption” instead of “exempt commodities”.  The former is what the IEM and others argue for.  Only I mentioned “exempt commodities” as part of a possibly more robust jurisdictional framework with respect to gaming laws, though election, tax and policy markets with the appropriate trading restrictions in place are clearly “excluded commodities”.  I don’t see the CFTC ruling such markets out as excluded commodities even if none are launched anytime soon because of the overarching political environment.

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