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PREDICTION MARKETS HAVE ARRIVED: Bloomberg columnist shames India’s government FOR NOT USING prediction markets to forecast demand.
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 participants — to generate useful forecasts.
There’s no reason why governments can’t do the same.
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Great idea.
Let’s shame the 95% [...]
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen outputs a completely imbecile Op-Ed on the wisdom of crowds and Media Predict.
Is There Wisdom in Crowds? $$$
Free version here, via George Tziralis.
Nowhere does Roger Cohen talk about the information aggregation mechanisms and compare them. Useless prose. Give us more of Steve Levitt instead.
Jim Cramer’s Market Manipulation 101
Jim Cramer:
The Least I Owe You
By Jim Cramer
RealMoney.com Columnist
3/22/2007 6:29 AM EDT
You may have seen some articles the past several days attacking me about an interview I gave recently where I discussed the kinds of manipulative trading practices that go on every day in the investing community. Let me say this: No one knows and [...]
This is a really tough decision. War may well be the right decision at this point. In fact, I think it–it’s–it–it probably is.
So said Time columnist Joe Klein just before the Iraq war. And now, Joe Klein pretends that he was all against this Iraq war from day one.
Joe Klein is just the latest of the so-called “MSN” pundits caught red-handed by the political bloggers. Scientist (and leftist blogger) Sean Caroll gives you all the details of [...]
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