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The CFTC is going to close the comments in 3 days. We have 3 days left to convince the CFTC to accept FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges (e.g., InTrade USA or BetFair USA), and counter the puritan and sterile petition organized by the American Enterprise Institute (which has on its payroll Paul Wolfowitz, the bright masterminder of the Iraq war).
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ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, Attention: Office of the Secretariat. Comments may be sent by facsimile to 202.418.5521, or by e-mail to secretary@cftc.gov.
Reference should be made to the “Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts.” Comments [...]
The CFTC is going to close the comments in 4 days. We have 4 days left to convince the CFTC to accept FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges (e.g., InTrade USA or BetFair USA), and counter the puritan and sterile petition organized by the American Enterprise Institute (which has on its payroll Paul Wolfowitz, the bright masterminder of the Iraq war).
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ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, Attention: Office of the Secretariat. Comments may be sent by facsimile to 202.418.5521, or by e-mail to secretary@cftc.gov.
Reference should be made to the “Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts.” Comments [...]
The best researchers on prediction markets
CFM: Scholars
Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.)
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Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Bernd H. Ankenbrand – Bernd Ankenbrand – (Lecturer, Witten/Herdecke [...]
Where to find advice on how to set up your enterprise prediction markets
Consultants
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Inkling – URL: Inkling Markets – (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Adam Siegel — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Nathan Kontny
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NewsFutures – (Maryland, U.S.A. & Paris, France, E.U.)
Emile Servan-Schreiber — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Maurice Balick
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Xpree – (U.S.A.)
Mat Fogarty — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
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HP Services – HP Labs – (U.S.A.)
Predicting the future –with games — Introductory article
Information Dynamics [...]
CFTC Requests Public Input on Possible Regulation of “Event Contracts” —a.k.a. event derivative markets, event futures markets, betting markets, bet markets, prediction markets
Via professor Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth (one of the top 5 economists studying prediction markets), the CFTC:
Release: 5493-08
For Release: May 1, 2008
CFTC Requests Public Input on Possible Regulation of “Event Contracts”
Washington, DC – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is asking for public comment on the appropriate regulatory treatment of financial agreements offered by markets [...]
Will HedgeStreet USA, the hypothetical InTrade USA, and the hypothetical TradeFair USA, be regulated in the future by a merged SEC+CFTC regulatory structure?
That sounds like a good prediction market proposal.
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As you all know:
The SEC regulates the securities markets (which support capital formation).
The CFTC regulates the futures markets (which exist to discover prices).
The SEC is rules based, meaning it sets regulations that institutions must follow, while the CFTC is principles based, in that it sets broad [...]
Control in Distributed Networks (Decisions 2.0: Distributed Decision-making)
Control in Distributed Networks (Decisions 2.0: Distributed Decision-making) – Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – 2008-03-25
One of the speakers will be Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures —a true enterprise prediction market pioneer. (He has certainly a point.)
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