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Monthly Archives: April 2010
All 3 British political leaders fell for the global warming scam.
Solar activity and cosmic rays drive the Earth’s climate. Global warming due to human-produced CO2 is the biggest scientific imposture of all times. These 3 political leaders are all wrong.
Posted in Politics
Tagged carbon, climate change, CO2, conservatives, Earth, energy, environment, global warming, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, James Cameron, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Planet Earth, Politics, Tories, UK politics, United Kingdom
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Iowa Electronic Markets’s George Neumann on InTrade prediction markets for Lloyd Blankfein resignation: “it’s in bad taste”.
George, les goûts et les couleurs, ça ne se discute pas.
Posted in Business, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Genesis, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged betting markets, Ethics, event derivative markets, event derivatives, George Neumann, George R. Neumann, Goldman Sachs, InTrade, Iowa Electronic Markets, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd C. Blankfein, prediction markets, resignation, taste
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Prof Schuyler Moore made a good impression on US Representatives.
I have published the video, and it has now appeared in Google Reader (contrary to my fear due to the technicality of this CSPAN video embedding).
Posted in Midas Oracle Administration
Tagged feeds, Google Reader, Midas Oracle, videos
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BETFAIR RETRACTS FROM THE FRENCH MARKET.
And in retaliation, Mark Davies retracts from the French Riviera. Le Monde Op-Ed by 3 betting/gambling operators.
What the Cantor Exchange (HSX) and the Media Derivatives Exchange (MDEX) really said to the US Congress about movie futures (a.k.a. box-office derivatives) – [VIDEO]
House Committee Agriculture @ US House Of Representatives: Download this post to watch the video if your feed reader does not show it to you. –> Prof Schuyler Moore mentions InTrade 1:35 into. Via Paul Bleier on FaceBook. Previously.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, Inventions & Innovations, Regulations
Tagged betting markets, box-office derivatives, Cantor Exchange, Cantor Fitzgerald, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, derivatives, event derivative markets, event derivatives, futures, Hollywood, Hollywood Stock Exchange, House Committee Agriculture, HSX, InTrade, MDEX, Media Derivatives, Media Derivatives Exchange, Motion Picture Association Of America, movie box office, movie business, movie futures, movies, prediction markets, Schuyler Moore, Trend Exchange, U.S. House of Representatives
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Steve Jobs tells you to run a HTML5 website —without Flash.
Thoughts on Flash – by Steve Jobs (APPLE CEO) Excellent. Read.
Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Mac, Apple Macintosh, browsers, Flash, HTML5, Internet sites, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Steve Jobs, The Internet, videos, Web, web applications, web apps, web browsers, websites
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WashPost: “The British will bet on anything.”
Via Daniel Horowitz
Risks pay off —sometimes. – [VIDEO]
Peter Diamandis on risks and innovation: Peter Diamandis: ACCEPTING RISK: Finally I’d like to address the issue of risk. In contrast to individuals who speak about reducing exposure to risk, I want to speak in favor of accepting more risk. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged aviation, Entrepreneurship, innovation, inventions, Peter Diamandis, prizes, risk, risks, space, X PRIZE
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The URLs of the UK’s General Election 2010
http://politics.betfair.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010 Gordon Brown’s gaffe (“bigoted woman”, Gillian Duffy):
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged BetFair, betting markets, bigoted woman, event derivative markets, Gillian Duffy, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Politics, prediction markets, Predictions, UK politics, UK's General Election 2010, United Kingdom
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