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Could Pat Buchanan’s socio-economic ramblings lead to the creation of socially interesting, long-term prediction markets?

Economist Michael Giberson: It would be a real public service to run well-conceived prediction markets based on the grandiose political pronouncements of the ‘chattering classes.’ Get the book author to cooperate in specifying a handful of significant, meaningful, testable claims … Continue reading

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The NewsFutures expiry judgment statements should not be elliptic.

To be respected, a judgment should be respectable. At the minimum, it should be stated. — FOREWORD: As I wrote in my previous blog post on the Harry Potter prediction market, I think that NewsFutures did a good job on … Continue reading

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