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Why does the CFTC allow the Cantor Exchange and not InTrade?

Joe Weisenthal has a small opinion piece on why the CFTC allows real-money prediction markets on movie business, and bans those on politics or sports. The problem in the piece is that Joe is 100% wrong. Joe says that there … Continue reading

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Hedging your political ads on InTrade or the Iowa Electronic Markets

Centrist Messenger: How it works. Centrist Messenger will issue a refund of the purchase price of the advertisement, if and only if the single candidate that you selected as being supported by your ad does not win the general presidential … Continue reading

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