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Prediction markets = “the future of journalism” —said, from day one, Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures. Emile, if you have balls, let’s do it —all together.

Written by Chris F. Masse on May 20, 2008 — 10 Comments

My yesterday’s post about the Obama–Clinton prediction markets was the most popular Midas Oracle story of that Monday. Hummmm… No idea why… I was not helped by Google Search or by an external blogger. Sounds like our Midas Oracle web readers and feed subscribers liked it … for some reasons I have yet to discover [...]

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Robin Hanson teaches Chris Masse how to make a bad CFTC compromise.

Written by Chris F. Masse on May 20, 2008 — 3 Comments

The unrepentant Robin Hanson:
Chris, you’ve heard of Christmas I presume. Many people circulate lists of items they might like for Christmas. If you did, would you circulate a list of million franc/dollar gift ideas for people to give you? Would you consider that list more honest/logical than a list of gifts of roughly the [...]

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Technology Prizes & Prediction Markets

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 27, 2007 — 1 Comment

ABC7 Futures Market: Will the $25 million dollar reward for developing something that will extract greenhouse gases be handed out in the next 5 years?
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Virgin Earth Challenge:
The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges’ satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric [...]

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