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LET’S REVISIT HISTORY: In May 2007, Harvard professor of economics Kenneth Rogoff laughed in Paul Wolfowitz’s face.
BACKGROUND INFO: Kenneth Rogoff is a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and professor of economics at Harvard University.
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May 2007’s Blog Post: INSIDER TRADING: World Bank employees speculating on the Paul Wolfowitz event derivatives at InTrade-TradeSports?? -
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For Aprils’s Fool Day 2007, Kenneth Rogoff wrote the following hoax.
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ForeignPolicy.com
MEMORANDUM:
TO: World Bank Staff
FROM: Paul Wolfowitz, President of [...]
Tax Futures, “In Real Life”
I am very pleased to announce the world’s first tax futures on Intrade. I thank John Delaney and everyone there for their help and enthusiasm in getting these off the ground.
The contracts will forecast the highest marginal single-filer federal tax rates for 2009, 2010 & 2011. I expect trade to be concentrated in the [...]
Pat Buchanan laments the end of WASP America.
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Drudge Report:
Pax Americana, the era of U.S. global dominance, is over. A struggle for global hegemony has begun among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam.
Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a product of hubris and of ideology, a secular religion of democratism, to which Bush was converted in the days following [...]
IRAQ WAR SPEECH: In what world is the president of the United States living?
… asks Fred Kaplan in Bush’s appalling Iraq speech.
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NewsFutures: Will U.S. Troops begin leaving Iraq soon?
Each I0908BYE contract will be worth x$100 if the U.S. Troop level (Active + National Guard + Reserve) in Iraq is reduced to 100,000 or less (No rounding) at any point in time before September 2008, and NOTHING otherwise. The [...]
Prediction Market Nobody But EJSS Gives The First Fig About
A Human-Aid cabinet-level Department will be created.
Each NEWCAB*Y contract will be worth X$100 if during his 2nd term, President Bush establishes a Cabinet-level Department charged with the mandate of managing all U.S. foreign aid activities. Otherwise it will be worth nothing.
© NewsFutures
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Is EJSS sweetened with a lady working for a non-governmental organization? Other [...]
Senate Democrats are urging Republicans on the record about whether embattled Attorney General Gonzales should keep his job.
Wall Street Journal
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Alberto Gonzales will remain Attorney General through the rest of Bush’s presidency.
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Manipulation can affect prices.
For the last two weeks a very interesting manipulation has been going on in Intrade’s “Hillary Clinton for President” contract.
1. The contract had been trading between 23 and 26 all year. It has consistently been about half the price of the “Hillary to get nominated” contract price. This ratio implies that, conditional [...]
YET ANOTHER PRO-ISRAEL WARMONGER TRIES TO PUSH AMERICA INTO ANOTHER MIDDLE EAST WAR.
Wall Street Journal:
The Case for Bombing Iran
I hope and pray that President Bush will do it.
Norman Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary. His new book, “World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism,” will be released by Doubleday on Sept. 11. This essay, in somewhat different form, was delivered as an address at a conference, “Is [...]
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