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Mat Fogarty to David Perry: “My ‘Chief Scientist’ beats yours.”
Leslie Fine is “Chief Scientist” of CrowdCast, now —formerly “Xpree”.
Posted in Consulting, People
Tagged Chief Scientists, CrowdCast, Leslie Fine, prediction markets, Xpree
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Inkling Markets to The Economist: “The trend is up, fellas.”
Inkling Markets: “Yet to take off,” however, does not equate to “bad idea.” The facts are that uptake among companies has been increasing year over year, more business schools are covering prediction markets in their curriculum, industry analysts have begun … Continue reading
Jim Rogers on Max Keiser’s The Oracle
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Posted in Entertainment, Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged BBC, BBC World, BBC World News, Entertainment, Finance, global economy, Humor, Jim Rogers, Max Keiser, The Oracle, US economy, Wall Street
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HubDub: Death markets are now banned.
HubDub: Hubdub does not permit markets on the impending death (for example how or when) of people, or markets considered to be death tolls, unless expressly approved at the discretion of the Category Editor. This rule will apply even in … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged death, Ethics, HubDub, prediction markets
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How vendors are scuttling the field of enterprise prediction markets —and the prediction market industry, as a whole
The danger of vendor conferences without any editorial line: It backfires against the whole prediction markets industry —big time. I warned my readers many times against the vendor conferences organized by the San Francisco man. He is so desperate that … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Industry), Cases, Consulting
Tagged businesses, corporate prediction markets, corporations, enterprise prediction markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), internal prediction markets, prediction markets, private prediction markets, public prediction markets, The Economist
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The Center for Prediction Markets, the biggest in the Chinese language, will try to call Taiwan’s presidential election on March 22, 2009.
NewsWeek Via research scientist David Pennock of YooPick fame. His Majesty attracts our attention on the fact that the article discusses (briefly) both play money and real money. – Center for Prediction Markets – Taiwan