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- Jason Ruspini rebuts Eric Zitzewitz on the regulation of political prediction markets. — [COMMENT]
- Eric Zitzewitz petitions the CFTC in favor of real-money prediction markets about politics. — [TEXT]
- Global warming is a big scam. — [LINK]
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- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
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- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: Goldman Sachs
Matt Taibbi vs. Goldman Sachs — [VIDEO]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WS0rpNHzT0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tibn5IO0I-A
Ex-HSX Max Keiser speaks to lawyers in Athens, Greece, about lawsuits (and hangings) against Goldman Sachs. — [VIDEO]
Lawyers in Greece are suing derivatives dealers and government officials in Greece for financial fraud.
Michael Lewis on the four sets of players in the subprime mortgage market who had the foresight and gumption to short the riskiest mortgage deals: Steve Eisman of FrontPoint, Greg Lippmann at Deutsche Bank, three partners at Cornwall Capital, and Michael Burry of Scion Capital – [VIDEO]
The Big Short:
Posted in Betting, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged Betting, economic crisis, Finance, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, hedge funds, Hedging, Michael Lewis, subprime lending crisis, subprime mortgage crisis, subprime mortgage market, subprimes, The Big Short
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Iowa Electronic Markets’s George Neumann on InTrade prediction markets for Lloyd Blankfein resignation: “it’s in bad taste”.
George, les goûts et les couleurs, ça ne se discute pas.
Posted in Business, Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Genesis, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged betting markets, Ethics, event derivative markets, event derivatives, George Neumann, George R. Neumann, Goldman Sachs, InTrade, Iowa Electronic Markets, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd C. Blankfein, prediction markets, resignation, taste
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Goldman Sachs’s $500-million PR trick
Goldman Sachs announces a program to give $500 million to small business.
FREAKONOMICS HAS SUCCEEDED IN PERSUADING POPSCI PPX TO CREATE A JATROPHA BIOFUEL PREDICTION MARKET.
Victory of the mind over matter!!!!!! The PopSci PPX prediction exchange has finally created a jatropha biofuel prediction market, as the Freakonomics blog was suggesting them to do. [...] some Goldman Sachs data on the estimated cost per barrel of … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Market Proposals), Business, Exchange Genesis, Exchanges & Markets, X Groups
Tagged AN X GROUP, Goldman Sachs, USD
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Dead or Almost Dead
— Dead: CME Economic Derivatives — Auction format Economic Derivatives – (U.S.A.) — CME + ICAP + Longitude (previously with Goldman Sachs) — These financial instruments are traded through a Universal Dutch Auction format —an automated parimutuel technique. — OTC … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets
Tagged automated market maker, Chris Sun, Consensus Point technology, David L. Passmore, Frank Conway, Germany, Goldman Sachs, Human Resource Institute, Ireland, Jed Christiansen, Massachusetts, MIT, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, prediction markets, Rose M. Baker, Rotterdam, Technology Review, The Netherlands, United States
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