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Probability of default — [EUROPE MAP]

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Too Big To Fail — [VIDEO]

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Is weather betting legal if you bundle it with auto leasing?

Pride Motors, a Boston area car dealer, is advertising the following special: Lease a car before August 26, and if it’s above 96 degrees at Boston Logan Airport on Labor Day, they will make your first 12 lease payments for … Continue reading

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Robert Shiller: Insurance, hedging, risk management, efficiency, etc.

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InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair and Betdaq should re-package prediction makets as insurance or contingent goods.

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David Pennock gives innovation ideas to Sean Park and the other VCs… FOR FREE.

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WeatherBill C.E.O. David Friedberg hopes to persuade [!?] the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (C.F.T.C.) to change the requirement that currently limits weather derivative traders to accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million.

Hummmmmmmmm… Quite a bold ambition. I’m very surprised by his statement. Is he naive? Via our chief economist Michael Giberson. UPDATE: Did the CFTC relax its ECPs requirement for eBOTs?

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RAND CORPORATION, the world’s most prestigious think tank, is a NewsFutures client.

NewsFutures’ clients: The world’s largest steel maker. CORNING Display Technologies. Japan’s largest advertising firm. Voted “most innovative” pharmaceutical company in Fortune‘s 2003 and 2004 rankings. The US packaged foods giant. Giant U.S. Pharmaceutical. Leading provider of objective analysis and effective … Continue reading

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What does the TradeSports/InTrade “split” really amount to?

TradeSports has been incorporated as a separate company in the Netherlands Antilles, while Intrade remains incorporated in Ireland, and they have split up the trading categories across the two websites. However, this looks sort of like a BetCRIS/BookMaker split, with … Continue reading

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Numeria CEO dislikes TradeSports’s real-money prediction markets. – REDUX

On the North Korea Missile scandal, Numeria CEO Peter Leitner wrote: The debate has been passionate on both sides, with some asserting that TradeSports is cheating its members by ignoring the obvious, and failing to acknowledge that a small operating … Continue reading

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