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The network of global corporate control — [PAPER]

The network of global corporate control — PDF file.

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Tax Me If You Can – (Tax Havens) — [VIDEO]

Following Tyler Cowen’s post at Marginal Revolution: – The truth about tax havens – Guardian – Tax Havens (PDF file) – Guardian – Secrecy Jurisdictions – Financial Secrecy Index

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Wall Street does not give credit to Google for Android. — [CHARTS]

There’s clearly the risk that, one day, new management at Google stops the development of Android.

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CrowdCast CEO Mat Fogarty on how his company is helping businesses make better-informed decisions [VIDEO]

Good questions, good answers: Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. External Links: – CrowdCast – CFO Prediction Market – Matt Fogarty’s twitter … Continue reading

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Big business’s support for the Obama administration’s health care reform is driven by “naked self-interest.” — Dixit Cato’s Michael Cannon.

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Employers for a Healthy Economy coalition has released a new anti-health care reform ad: Facts about the health care bill:

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How vendors are scuttling the field of enterprise prediction markets —and the prediction market industry, as a whole

The danger of vendor conferences without any editorial line: It backfires against the whole prediction markets industry —big time. I warned my readers many times against the vendor conferences organized by the San Francisco man. He is so desperate that … Continue reading

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The Economist: The enterprise prediction markets are flopping, big time.

An uncertain future – A novel way of generating forecasts has yet to take off. – by The Economist – 2009-02-26 – But although they have spread beyond early-adopting companies in the technology industry, they have still not become mainstream … Continue reading

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What is a prediction market? What is the utility of enterprise prediction markets?

Consensus Point: First, every market price is a prediction. Think of a familiar securities market such as a stock market. The price of a company’s stock is a forecast of the value of future dividend payments. A bond price is … Continue reading

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