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Tag Archives: Department of Defense
Terrorism Futures
Justin Wolfers: It is the accuracy of market-generated forecasts that led the Department of Defense to propose running prediction markets on geopolitical events. While political rhetoric about “terrorism futures” led the plug to be pulled on that particular experiment… Justin … Continue reading
John Delaney of inTrade-TradeSports: The North Korea Missile prediction market was a P.R. disaster.
Jed Christiansen: It’s obvious that John wants InTrade to be much more successful than it has been, but he still clearly believes that InTrade can still be very successful. He mentioned that one key in their business is market makers; … Continue reading
BETFAIR DOES FIGHT VIGOROUSLY ANY ATTEMPTS AT MONEY LAUDERING.
Fascinating. I have just searched Google News for “BetFair” and I have counted only 4 news publications (and small ones, with tiny readerships) that have cited the BetFair rebuttal, since July 11, 2007 (the day the BetFair press release was … Continue reading
The truth on the 2000–2003 US DoD’s DARPA’s IAO’s FutureMAP/Policy Analysis Market project.
The Policy Analysis Market project was badmouthed last week by Bruce Hansen of The Register, so I’m publishing here some excerpts of Robin Hanson’s verbatim. — Robin Hanson: [...] It fell to me to explore possible application areas, and after … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, History, Market Contract Statements
Tagged Arafat, Bruce Hansen, Charles Polk, Congress, date, David Pennock, Department of Defense, Israel, John Poindexter, media storm, North Korea, oil prices, prediction markets, research scientist, Robin Hanson, Saudi Arabia, secretary of defense, Senate, United States, US DoD, USD, Yahoo!
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A June 2006 piece on HedgeStreet I overlooked at the time
Mark Longo (PDF): Event futures are exciting products that allow customers to speculate on the outcome of specific events. The possibilities for these powerful products are limitless. [...] In an attempt to refocus its efforts on the futures markets, the … Continue reading
U.S. Intelligence Community creates an internal Wikipedia. Will they use prediction markets, next?
Intellipedia: 16 U.S. spy agencies and their 3,600 intelligence professionals will now be using a custom Wikipedia. My Questions: Are (public or internal, real-money or play-money) prediction markets next? Of course, I won’t mention the Policy Analysis Market. Let’s be … Continue reading
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged Boeing, Department of Defense, Google, Laser, Major, Midas Oracle Post, spy, United States, web stats reports
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