Monthly Archives: March 2009

InTrade CEO John Delaney: “Midas Oracle is welcome to publish our financials. I am glad that bombastic gadfly did it.”

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- The InTrade documents: – - – I have obscured the personal addresses of these 2 persons:

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InTrade recorded a loss after taxation of $799,253 in 2007–2008.

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

What is the future of InTrade? Comments are open. – - – I have obscured the personal addresses of these 2 persons:

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InTrade’s financials: Where is the note #12?

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Our commenter: We would need to see note 12 to understand what happened to the Share Premium account. It appears that the December 31, 2007 balance of the P & L Account was applied against the Share Premium account. However, … Continue reading →

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Why did HubDub’s Nigel Eccles go to SXSW?

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

http://sxsw.com/ Was it to meet this man?

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Nate Silver

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Austin Chronicle: You came to blogging from a background in baseball stats. In the post in which you revealed your identity on FiveThirtyEight, you said both fields use data badly. I was wondering if you could expand on that. Nate … Continue reading →

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Google on Charlie Rose

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Marissa Mayer, V.P. of Search Product and User Experience – Eric Schmidt, CEO

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2010 US congressional elections + The next UK general elections

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

- 2010 US Elections – - – - UK Elections – Next General Election – Most Seats – Next UK Prime Minister – Winner of Next UK Election – Political Party – UK Conservatives – UK Labour -

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Will prediction markets ever really take off?

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Tyler Cowen asked the readers of his blog (Marginal Revolution, the #1 blog on economics) which questions Robin Hanson should be grilled with. Here is what I suggested: The failure of enterprise prediction markets to take off, in spite of … Continue reading →

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The Blog Of The Day

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Professor Al Roth (an expert in market design):

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HubDub’s Nigel Eccles thumbs his nose at Nate Silver.

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris F. Masse
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