Tag Archives: Ethics
French bozo economist David Thesmar is hiding his 2007 Op-Ed that stated that the financial crisis “won’t happen”.
David Thesmar is a man of minutiae. He runs a website at his glory that lists any paper, book or editorial he has penned. Except for one.
Our French smart ass co-wrote an Op-Ed in July 2007, titled, “The mega-crash won’t happen” [PDF file]. Just everything in [...]
French bozo economist Augustin Landier is hiding his 2007 Op-Ed that stated that the financial crisis “won’t happen”.
Augustin Landier is a man of minutiae. He runs a website at his glory that lists any paper, book or editorial he has penned. Except for one.
Our French smart ass co-wrote an Op-Ed in July 2007, titled, “The mega-crash won’t happen” [PDF file]. Just everything in it was wrong, as the [...]
Which industry is more detrimental to society — finance or gambling?
Felix Salmon (#):
Finance, at least in its virulent form of the past 20 years or so. Macau is in much better shape than Iceland, or Dubai. Millions of people genuinely believe they can and will get rich by day-trading stocks and options and whatnot; the ranks of professional gamblers are much smaller and much less [...]
UK’s Advertising Standards Authority slaps BetFair again —this time, over e-mail ads featuring a young poker player.
UK’s Advertising Standards Authority:
Ad
An e-mail ad for an online poker site showed a photograph of a young woman. Text stated “ONLINE EXPERIENCE IS MEASURED IN GAMES, NOT YEARS. JOIN THE NEW BREED. Annette Obrestad – “ANNETTE_15″.
Issue
1. The complainant objected that the ad was irresponsible, because it might encourage children and young people to gamble.
2. [...]
Derren Brown, purveyor of bad science
“Returning to Derren Brown’s lottery explanation, we can see that the wisdom of crowds has no use for predicting the lottery.“
Previously: Derren Brown’s lottery win = A split camera trick disguised as “wisdom of crowds”
betfair misleading ads
Guess which website comes up as #1 on Google Search for “betfair misleading ads“…
Congrats to the Swiss chocolate-addicted Niall O’Connor.
BetFair has been ordered to drop starting price ad. — Misleading BetFair ads are now banned in the UK.
BetFair has been ordered to drop starting price ad.
Misleading BetFair ads are now banned in the UK.
The UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled against a promotional campaign run by betting exchange Betfair after the company failed to qualify its claims of offering dramatically better starting prices to horse race gamblers.
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Advertising Standards Authority (ASA):
Assessment
Upheld
The ASA noted Betfair’s [...]
The San Francisco clown obsesses with Midas Oracle.
Here is what that clown puts as keywords on his ‘cluster’ frontpage (click on “Page Source” in your browser):
meta name=”keywords”
content=”prediction markets, prediction market, CCI, Emile, Center for Collective Intelligence, Midas Oracle, Robin Hanson, James Surowiecki, prediction, markets, clusters, communities, crowd, wisdom, information markets, knowledge markets, M[], Smart mobs, Chris Masse, swarms, trade exchanges, social, networks, [...]
FOX’s Bill O’Reilly in vampire costume for the Halloween