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- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- 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]
- Much better than a bike… and more affordable than a SegWay… –> The Me-Mover — [VIDEO]
- InTrade is not predictive, says notable financial journalist. — [SCREENSHOT]
- Drudge links directly to InTrade prediction markets, bypassing journalos. — [SCREENSHOT]
- BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Betting on Copenhagen
Emile Servan-Schreiber comments on a New York Times opinion piece: The idea that betting could help us gain clarity on some controversial scientific questions has first been proposed by George Mason economics professor Robin Hanson in 1992 in a paper … Continue reading
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission will have authority to decide what derivatives must be centrally cleared rather than letting private parties make the call.
“Central clearing interposes a regulated clearinghouse between the original counterparties in a derivatives transaction and so creates an opportunity to make dealing more transparent.” CNBC video
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Regulations
Tagged abuses, CFTC, clearinghouse, clearinghouses, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, derivative clearinghouse, derivative clearinghouses, derivatives, Finance, Financial Markets, financial reforms, frauds, laws, manipulations, Regulations, risks, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, systemic risks, Timothy Geithner, US Congress, US financial markets, US government, US Treasury
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Gold to $2,000?
Old video:
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged commodities, Consumer Price Index, CPI, employment, Federal Reserve, Finance, Financial Markets, gold, growth, hyper inflation, inflation, interest rates, job creation, jobs, Peter Schiff, platinium, profits, silver, stock market, stock markets, stocks, unemployment, US dollars, US economy, Wall Street
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The French have taken over the City of London.
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic: Do you know what it means for me to see for the first time in 50 years a French European commissioner in charge of the internal market, including financial services, including the City … Continue reading
Stats for November 2009 — Midas Oracle Edition
P.S.: The stats would be much better if I opened the comments more widely. I don’t, because it saturates the server. In the future, we will see.
The Dubai economy was just a mirage.
Dubai = an over-sized hedge fund that got out of control
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Dubai World, global economy, United Arab Emirates, US economy, Wall Street
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New TV ad for Thomson Reuters
[I am not paid to run this ad. Just information.]
Niall O’Connor is on Twitter –finally.
http://twitter.com/bettingmarket http://twitter.com/midasoracle Jason Ruspini should keep up with the Jones.