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- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
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- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
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- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
- Why Samsung is no Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney @ Bain Capital — [VIDEO]
- Central banks should set up prediction markets. — [LINK]
- Max Keiser on NADEX — [VIDEO]
- New Hampshire prediction markets screwed up political forecasting in 2008. Will they be right this time? — [CHARTS]
- The real reasons why prediction markets are accurate. — [LINK]
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- BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Nate Silver has rendered InTrade useless —now, he plans to do the same with the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Nate Silver Predicts the Winners of the 2009 Oscars. Via Jason Ruspini. -
Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice)
Tagged 2009 Oscars, movies, Nate Silver, prediction markets, Predictions
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InTrade-TradeSports’s country is on the brink of insolvency.
Irish government faces growing fears of debt default. Fears are growing that Ireland could default on its national debt after the cost to insure against possible losses on loans to the country rose to record highs at the end of … Continue reading
BetFair’s Mark Davies, the last man standing
Andrew Black: Most of the original [BetFair] team have moved on now. Ed Wray is now Chairman, Mark Davies is still there and I’m still on the board and going in from time to time – I have three [BetFair] … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Exchanges & Markets, History
Tagged Andrew Black, BetFair, Ed Wray, Edward Wray, Mark Davies, prediction markets
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Will FoxNews retract its story about $30M for the salt marsh harvest mouse?
Will FoxNews retract its story about $30M for the salt marsh harvest mouse?
4 miscellaneous web links you can’t afford to ignore
- Max Keiser and Alec Baldwin lecture little Nigel Eccles (of HubDub) on Italian cheese and the US economy. – Auction system in the NFL. – Via prof Mike Giberson from Texas. – Local newspapers are going down the toilets, … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, The Global Economy
Tagged Alec Baldwin, Bailout, inflation, links, Max Keiser, stimulus, US economy, web links
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Small interview of BetFair’s Mark Davies
… by our good friends of MajorWager. -
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, History
Tagged BetFair, Mark Davies, prediction markets
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Wiser Than The Crowd…?…
Wiser Than The Crowd: I’ve been carrying over 1000 contracts of the controversial “-10%GDP.CUM.09*SEE*RULES*” issues. I averaged in beginning when the rules were “clarified,” ending up at an average basis cost of 42.5. Since then, I’ve been selling in dribs … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Trading
Tagged InTrade, prediction markets, Wiser Than The Crowd
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Google punishes Google Japan by lowering its PageRank to 5.
Amazing. PS: The PageRank of Midas Oracle is 6 / 10 —higher than any other prediction market blog. -