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Monthly Archives: October 2009
TRAFIGURA: The Guardian was served with a gagging order forbidding it from reporting parliamentary business.
“The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Journalism
Tagged Carter-Ruck, freedom of speech, Great Britain, Journalism, Media, press, super-injunctions, The Guardian, Trafigura, United Kingdom
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CNBC Mad Money’s Jim Cramer discusses the state of the US economy.
Posted in Finance, The Global Economy
Tagged CNBC, CNBC Mad Money, economic crisis, financial crisis, Jim Cramer, US economy
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Ladbrokes’ shareholders must call for Bell’s head.
In February 2008 the tame and compliant UK press were falling over themselves to announce the great news that the English billionaire Joe Lewis had taken a stake of 7% in Ladbrokes, worth about £133m. The Guardian’s Nils Pratley was … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, All Guest Authors's Posts, Betting, Business
Tagged Ladbrokes
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The connection between 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Elinor Ostrom’s work on the governance of common-pool resources and relatively recent work on knowledge commons.
“Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up, unlike digital goods) yet need to be or should be governed as a commons — classically, things like water … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged common-pool resources, commons, Creative Commons, Economics, Elinor Ostrom, knowledge commons
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The director of “Not Evil, Just Wrong” (a documentary challenging Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”) dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference.
“Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the ‘right kind’ of questions to be asked of him.” Not Evil, Just Wrong @ Twitter
Nobel Prize for Economics 2009 — Prediction Accuracy
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” and Oliver E. Williamson … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities
Tagged 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics, 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, accuracy, bookmakers, economic science, economic sciences, Economics, Elinor Ostrom, inkling markets, Ladbrokes, Nobel Prize for Economics, Oliver E. Williamson, Oliver Williamson, prediction accuracy, prediction market, prediction markets, Prediction Post-Mortem, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
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