Author Archives: Chris F. Masse

About Chris F. Masse

Founder and President of Midas Oracle

Ex-BetFair Mark Davies defends betting in the wake of the latest sport corruption affair. – [VIDEO]

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Excellent. Download this post if your feed reader does not show you the video. PS: Give me the name of the idiot who booted Mark Davies out of BetFair.

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Social B.I. … or social B.S. … ?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

You will be the judge.

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Ex-BetFair’s Mark Davies –> His new blog URL.

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

The new URL of his blog: http://www.markxdavies.com/ His Twitter: http://twitter.com/markxdavies A portrait of him (BetFair circa).

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Things Jason Ruspini wanna know

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

“Can we begin to index the broad rate of technological change? What would that curve look like over the last 200 years? How does it correspond to asset returns? Does that say anything about prospective returns?“

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Money does not motivate humans… – [VIDEO]

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Higher incentives lead to worse performances: For cognitive tasks: AUTONOMY + MASTERY + PURPOSE.

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The latest Kauffman poll of economic bloggers

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

- “Grim”. – “Pessimism”.

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Midas Oracle also publishes a twitter feed, which has info you won’t get on this blog.

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Plenty of things are not published on this blog, but on our Twitter feed. Do subscribe to it —if you are a PM news junkie. Have a good Summer, folks.

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3 years later, Mark Davies finally sees the light. — [Better late than never.]

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Chris F. Masse
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Emile Servan-Schreiber @ Lumenogic

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

NewsFutures has become Lumenogic. “Collective intelligence for senior leadership”… — the word in bold tells us a lot.

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Hedging on Prediction Markets

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

- Yes. – No.

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