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- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- 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: August 2011
John Delaney’s OB — [RANT]
When I die, I want the doctor Pennock to write my ob. Then, I am sure only the good things will be highlighted. On InTrade: All the economists blogging about their prediction markets never mentioned the numerous disputes about the … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, People
Tagged death, InTrade, John Delaney, John Delaney's death, OB, obituary, prediction markets, TradeSports
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Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America — [VIDEO]
Peter Dale Scott:
Your prediction markets can power the American Civics Exchange. — [IDEA MILL]
American Civics Exchange: Having just executed an initial round of closings for the funding we’ve been raising, we’re entering the final run-up to our real-money trading launch. With that in mind, we’ve launched a community feature where prospective traders (and … Continue reading
Posted in Betting, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchange & Market Management, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, Market Genesis
Tagged All Rockets Ready To Fly, American Civics Exchange, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, event derivative markets, event derivatives, exchange genesis, forecasting, genesis, IDEAS, market genesis, predicting, prediction, prediction markets, Predictions, proposals
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Google is a playground run by pranking adolescents. — [LINKS]
–> Read the story on how Google went bidding for the Nortel patents. Are these Mountain View people serious? RELATED: More on Google‘s take on patents.
Posted in Business
Tagged Apple, clowns, comedy, Google, intellectual property, IP, Microsoft, Mountain View, patents, professionalism, serousness
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The InTrade crisis deepens as their #1 fanboy calls for unwinding all trades on the debt ceiling prediction market — [SCANDAL]
Previously: Post-Delaney InTrade experiences turmoil related to the debt ceiling prediction market. — [CHART + LINK] As I said many times, Carl Wolfenden is an incompetent, and all the economists advertising InTrade on their blogs and in the media are … Continue reading
You do not make much money trading triple-A-rated US government debt, the spreads are very tight, and there is not much money to be made. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged AAA, bankers, banks, bonds, credit, debt, debt ceiling, debt ceilint, dollar, Finance, Financial Markets, Max Keiser, money creation, public debt, speculation, speculators, Treasuries, Triple A, US debt, US debt ceiling, US dollar, US public debt, Wall Street
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Post-Delaney InTrade experiences turmoil related to the debt ceiling prediction market. — [CHART + LINK]
37 pages (!!) on the InTrade message board. Once again, one can question the professionalism of the InTrade execs and the usefulness of the prediction markets.