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Here’s the man who would deliver a wise analysis on whether the InTrade HCR PM is being manipulated or traded by “DC insiders”.
Previously: Insider trading in the InTrade prediction market on health care reform?
Humoristic factoid of the day…
Oh, my Gosh… David Pennock is from Pittsburgh…!!!…
Fortune’s Stanley Bing did a piece on how dull Pittsburgh is, a decade ago, but I can’t find it on the Net.
P.S.: I went thru Pittsburgh’s airport, one day, but I don’t know the town. I love Philly and Harrisburg, PA, though.
Jed Christiansen is not dead.
He is working at Google as “a Strategic Partner Manager in the EMEA Reseller team”.
Another proof that prediction markets don’t put food on the table of their most ardent advocates.
Maurice Balick is out of hibernation.
http://twitter.com/mbalick
Prediction market pioneer and Wall Street outcast Max Keiser is frequently searched on Google since the start of the 2008 financial burst.
Addendum: Max Keiser’s blog
Is Robin Hanson a fox or a hedgehog? — REDUX
Tyler Cowen praised Robin Hanson.
Robin Hanson responds that we should praise “results instead of characters”:
the world would be better if we praised folks more for what they did than who they are.
Excellent.
So, how would you answer the question in the blog title?
Is Robin Hanson a fox or a hedgehog?
Read Tyler Cowen’s description of Robin Hanson, and then answer these 2 questions:
- Is Robin Hanson a fox or a hedgehog?
- Is Tyler Cowen a fox or a hedgehog?
Comment below, or e-mail me if you want your toughts to stay private.
I am 100% certain that Tyler Cowen is a fox. However, I cannot make up [...]
Bo Cowgill decamps from Google.
You don’t care, and you don’t need to know this:
- Bo Cowgill has quit Google and is now pursuing a PhD at Berkeley.
You can now return to your normal activity: working, trading, and blogging.
UPDATE:
Bo Cowgill: “I haven’t fully decamped from Google. I’m just not full-time there anymore as I’m pursuing the doctorate at Berkeley.”
Yet another prediction market “consultant” — PM “consultants” = salesmen / saleswomen.
http://www.dawntkellerconsulting.com/
http://www.dawntkellerconsulting.com/blog/
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