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What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: â€œConcept Release … Continue reading →

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The CFTC is going to close the comments in 3 days. We have 3 days left to convince the CFTC to accept FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges (e.g., InTrade USA or BetFair USA), and counter the puritan and sterile petition organized by the American Enterprise Institute (which has on its payroll Paul Wolfowitz, the bright masterminder of the Iraq war).

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, Attention: Office of the Secretariat. Comments may be sent by facsimile to 202.418.5521, or by e-mail to secretary@cftc.gov. … Continue reading →

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The CFTC is going to close the comments in 4 days. We have 4 days left to convince the CFTC to accept FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges (e.g., InTrade USA or BetFair USA), and counter the puritan and sterile petition organized by the American Enterprise Institute (which has on its payroll Paul Wolfowitz, the bright masterminder of the Iraq war).

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

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CFTC’s Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

CFTC – (PDF file): CFTC’s Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts – SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is soliciting comment on the appropriate regulatory treatment of financial agreements offered by markets commonly … Continue reading →

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CFTC Requests Public Input on Possible Regulation of â€œEvent Contractsâ€ —a.k.a. event derivative markets, event futures markets, betting markets, bet markets, prediction markets

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Via professor Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth (one of the top 5 economists studying prediction markets), the CFTC: Release: 5493-08 For Release: May 1, 2008 CFTC Requests Public Input on Possible Regulation of â€œEvent Contractsâ€ Washington, DC â€“ The Commodity Futures … Continue reading →

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Eliot Spitzer has simply demonstrated once again that those who rise to the top of organizations are very often the most demented, conflicted individuals in any group.

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The only question that remains for those who work for such people and vote for them when they run is why we continue to be grossed out, shocked and scandalized when the very personality attributes that got them to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Psychology | Tagged Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Emperors Club VIP, Fortune, governor, New York, prostitution, resignation, sex, Stanley Bing | Leave a comment

“Prostitution is inevitable, so we might as well legalize and regulate it.”

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

That’s what many libertarians think, right? But Nicholas Kristof has a piece in the New York Times that is well informed and balanced… and that could change the mind of some libertarians… – “Kristen” (outed in today’s NYT), photographed in … Continue reading →

Posted in Ethics, Politics | Tagged bank, Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Emperors Club VIP, governor, Justin Wolfers, New York, Nicholas Kristof, prediction markets, prostitution, resignation, Saint Tropez, sex, the New York Times | Leave a comment

Justin Wolfers is a wise man.

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Zubin Jelveh highlights this piece of wisdom (which I didn’t quote in my previous post): It seems to me that the truly important violations of the public trust are when the power we give our government officials is sold, … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Emperors Club VIP, governor, Justin Wolfers, New York, prediction markets, resignation, Securities and Exchange Commission, sex, Zubin Jelveh | 5 Comments

Ratted by his bank, sex-addict New York governor Eliot Spitzer (alias “Client 9″) resigns.

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- New York Times What brought him down

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics | Tagged bank, Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer (Client), Emperors Club VIP, governor, InTrade, New York, New York Times, prediction markets, resignation, sex | Leave a comment

Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it’s death. You’re giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Dixit Eliot Spitzer, the then-New York attorney general. Frightening. New York Post Reason magazine ABC News Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Slate – - Psstt… Somebody registered Client9.com just after news broke…

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Humor, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged ABC, attorney general, Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Emperors Club VIP, governor, InTrade, New York, New York Post, prediction markets, Reason, resignation, sex, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

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