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Why don’t they use prediction markets to settle their Community Reinvestment Act dispute?

Barry Ritholtz versus John Carney

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Food, Inc. — Yet another movie for Lance Fortnow’s eco-daughter

Food, Inc.
YouTube – Official Trailer (which those idiots made un-embeddable)
Unofficial trailers (posted on YouTube by “pirates”):

Previously: Download HOME, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film — The Earth From Above

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Data Analysis Of The Day — Sex Scandal Edition

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Why did Brad DeLong pick on our Eric Zitzewitz?

Jason Ruspini:
It seemed like Delong interpreted the mere suggestion of 10% interest rates as a veiled attack on the Obama administration. That would explain the unfairly harsh and pedantic manner of his post.
I think that Delong is right to be sensitive on this subject. Trading in Treasuries has recently seemed a bit aggressive and not [...]

Lance Fortnow’s daughter loved it, so David Pennock’s daughter will love it too.

How to download Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film, HOME

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HOME = The Earth From Above

I think I computed why Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film about our Planet Earth is the buzz of the week all around the world —except in the U.S. If I am correct, they have a lawsuit in the U.S. with a beef producer. In the film, towards the end, you will see a giant cattle that [...]

Is Robin Hanson a market fundamentalist?

Niall O’Connor:
Robin Hanson, is what I would term a market fundamentalist – somebody who believes that markets are the primary mechanism for achieving the public good. Recent events have demonstrated that this creed is morally bankrupt. We are, in the words of Michael Sandel, “at the end of an era of market triumphalism”.
Robin Hanson:
I deny [...]

Decision markets will one day revolutionize governance, both public and private…

That’s the blurb that Robin Hanson wrote up for “Predictocracy“, Michael Abramowicz’s book. I don’t believe a single word of it. If prediction markets and decision-aid markets were so powerful, we would have had the evidence under our very nose, since everybody and his sister are experimenting with prediction markets since 2003.
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Download HOME, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film — The Earth From Above

How to download Home, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film about Planet Earth from Above
“HOME” is a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is entirely composed of aerial shots of various places around Earth, taken in over 50 countries in the process. You can download the film till June 14, 2009. [See bottom of this post for why [...]

Do download HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film) before it is too late.

UPDATE: How to download Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film, HOME —the documentary about The Earth From Above
- I am not asking you to watch the film in full.
- I am not asking you to like the film.

- I am asking you to download the film from YouTube today —before they remove the file from the YouTube server.

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