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The definitive proof that FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges (like BetFair and InTrade) are the best organizers of socially valuable prediction markets (like those on global warming and climate change).

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Last year, I said that the BetFair prediction markets on global warming would fail. I said: My prediction is that the first two BetFair Global Warming prediction markets (HSBC Investable Climate Change Index and ECX CFI Futures Contract) will fail … Continue reading →

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Only 7 web publications took the BetFair bait on global warming.

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Yeah, at Midas Oracle, we do swallow baits on prediction markets!!! — BETFAIR: HSBC Investable Climate Change Index, ECX CFI Futures Contract, and Highest and Lowest UK Temperature. MIDAS ORACLE: BetFair’s Global Warming Prediction Markets — CFM’s Views + BetFair’s … Continue reading →

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BetFair’s Global Warming Prediction Markets — CFM’s Views

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

GOOD NEWS: BetFair-TradeFair are minding the prediction markets. BAD NEWS: There is a bunch of chaps at BetFair who are monkeying around with the concept of prediction markets. — THEIR INTENT IS NOBLE. Mark Davies, Betfair’s Managing Director Corporate Affairs, … Continue reading →

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BetFair’s Global Warming Prediction Markets

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

As you have seen, Niall O’Connor posted about BetFair’s Global Warming prediction markets, yesterday, Wednesday. I searched the Web and couldn’t find their announcement. So I e-mailed Robin Marks (the Head of the Media Department at BetFair), and he was … Continue reading →

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BetFair embrace “decision markets”.

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Niall O'Connor

Betfair has launched a series of innovative betting markets which will provide clear indications of how public opinion views the on-going debate about climate change, by allowing people to speculate on climate indices developed to track the extent (or otherwise) … Continue reading →

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eBay, BetFair, and now Zopa — Exchanges for Everything

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Via Read & Write Web, Zopa (an exchange for personal loans): Social Lending is a financial category of genuine and increasing importance – and it makes much more sense than the traditional banking model. Banks have huge overheads, with thousands … Continue reading →

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