Tag Archives: Africa

Yacouba Sawadogo, the man who stopped the desert — [VIDEO]

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

More efficient than the FAO, the IMF and the World Bank. In French.

Posted in Inventions & Innovations, The Global Economy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

DROUGHT ALMOST KILLED OFF THE HUMAN SPECIES (AND THUS THE POSSIBILITY OF PREDICTION MARKETS) SOME 70,000 YEARS AGO.

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought. – -

Posted in Art, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Some global warming updates from GISS

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Caveat Bettor

Intrade (or any prediction exchange wanting to compete), please list global warming contracts! The information will probably end up saving lives, as we can more efficiently allocate finite resources to global warming research and reduction (vs. preventative healthcare, disease control, … Continue reading →

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Market Proposals), Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Meet the real oracle, Global Insight.

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Global Insight: Global Insight provides the most comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries available from any source—covering over 200 countries and spanning more than approximately 170 industries—using a unique combination of expertise, models, data, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Resources - References | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

More than 200,000 corporate runners from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America will participate in the 2007 JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge.

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

New York City: June 20 & 21, 2007 One of our friends working in Manhattan is participating. Good luck to him… and all the others. (Are our Steve Roman and Jason Ruspini going to take part of the race?)

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The guy who invented LifeStraw, an instant water purification filter, will do more for Africa than that idiot of Bono.

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

LifeStraw prediction markets, anyone??

Posted in Analysis (Market Proposals), Inventions & Innovations | Tagged | 2 Comments

Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was going to talk about the Marshall Plan. But instead I’ll talk about the Mwenda Plan, inaugurated today.

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Rock star/activist Bono, beginning a rebuttal to Andrew Mwenda, who argued forcefully against foreign aid in Africa – (TED blog) Here’s the object of the polemique: The session culminated with a healthy dose of controversy. Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda gave … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, The Global Economy | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CME – Hurricane futures markets 101

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

South Florida Sun-Sentinel: [...] After a storm begins forming off the coast of Africa, for example, a buyer can obtain a contract covering the first storm to make landfall in Florida. The risk level of the storm will be determined … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Contract Statements | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CME to launch Hurricane Event Futures

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Via Fabian John, CME’s P.R. stuff: Using publicly available data from the National Hurricane Center of the National Weather Service, the Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI(TM)) uses the maximum wind velocity and size (radius) of each official storm to calculate the … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Contract Statements | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment