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Tag Archives: Felix Salmon
Adam Lindemann schools Felix Salmon about art business. — [VIDEO]
[Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.] Adam Lindemann: Dear Felix, I very much enjoyed being interviewed by you. It was a lot of fun and I must add that … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business
Tagged Adam Lindemann, Art, art business, Business, Felix Salmon
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Felix Salmon wins the ASA 2010 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award
American Statistical Association: ALEXANDRIA VA, MAY 14, 2009 – Felix Salmon, a well known financial blogger who writes extensively about statistics, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (ESRA) of the American Statistical Association … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Science
Tagged American Statistical Association, Felix Salmon, statistics, stats
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The value of prediction market journalism, which doesn’t produce any scoop, is zero.
Felix Salmon (in a piece about the ROI of web publishing): As real-money prediction markets become legal in the US, there’s surely going to be a lot of money in writing about them and driving rich readers to them. Total … Continue reading
Felix Salmon’s hastily written NYT Op-Ed about the Cantor Exchange and MDEX
You will learn nothing. Watch the US House video instead. You will have more facts and more arguments. UPDATE: Mike Giberson has a remark on Felix’s piece.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Hedging & Insurance, Regulations
Tagged betting markets, box-office derivatives, Cantor Exchange, Cantor Fitzgerald, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, derivatives, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Felix Salmon, futures, Hollywood, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, MDEX, Media Derivatives, Media Derivatives Exchange, Motion Picture Association Of America, movie box office, movie business, movie futures, movies, New York Times, prediction markets, Trend Exchange
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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 … Continue reading
Felix Salmon on the plutocrats
- The return of the plutocrats – Why the plutocrats will return
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Politics
Tagged Felix Salmon, Finance, Financial Markets, plutocrats
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Investors care if stock XYZ in their portfolio is going to go up or down. That’s it.
Eddy Elfenbein lectures Felix Salmon: July 15th, 2009 4:52 am GMT Felix, I hate to deluge you with comments today but I really have to take exception to this post. One of the big problems with the financial blogosphere is … Continue reading
Why I unsubscribed to John Delaney (InTrade) and Jed Christiansen at Twitter
I try to “follow” as many prediction market people on Twitter as I can (click on “following”), but I had to unfollow these 2 persons because: – I like Jed a lot, but he often tweets about his private life. … Continue reading