John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: â€œConcept Release … Continue reading →

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PREDICTION MARKETS HAVE ARRIVED: Bloomberg columnist shames India’s government FOR NOT USING prediction markets to forecast demand.

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

WOW. This is big. Andy Mukherjee: [...] Finally, demand estimation is too important to be left entirely to experts. Companies such as Google Inc. are harnessing the power of prediction markets — which gather information from a large number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Forecasting (Science & Practice), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg, columnist, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Google Inc, Humor, India, internal prediction markets, McDonald's, Nike, prediction markets, private prediction markets | Leave a comment

Tennis is not systematically nor institutionally corrupt. There is no evidence of a link to the Mafia.

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Only 45 suspicious tennis matches out of the hundreds of thousands of matches played over the last five years. That’s peanuts. – Via Steve Roman Bloomberg New York Times The Times (of London) The Guardian – Previously: The Mark Davies … Continue reading →

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France’s Nicolas Sarkozy — One year later, the French economy is still in the mud.

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- No good. Nicolas Sarkozy has become the most unpopular French president ever —primarily due to his personal behavior. Franceâ€™s public finances deteriorated in 2007, hovering close to the Maastricht 3% mark. Public spending (54% of gross domestic product) is … Continue reading →

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InTrade ditch market-leader Bloomberg for low-cost, second-tier data provider eSignal.

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

InTrade: IMPORTANT: Financial Contracts Rule Change Wednesday, Apr 16, 2008 As of Monday, April 21st we will no longer be using Bloomberg as the source of expiry information for our daily financial contracts. We will instead be using data provided … Continue reading →

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How have Jason Ruspini’s tax futures markets at InTrade-TradeSports fared, so far?

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- The most liquid of the Jason Ruspini-created contracts: – - – I would like to talk a bit about the Internet marketing of these prediction markets, in the rest of this present post. – As you all know, Jason … Continue reading →

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