Tag Archives: Internet gambling ban
W.T.O. on internet gambling and betting – United States of America vs. Antigua-Barbuda
I ran this story yesterday, as you have seen, but Steve Roman has spotted another excerpt that is interesting.
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New York Times (page two):
[...] Complying with the W.T.O. ruling, Professor Jackson said, would require Congress and the Bush administration either to reverse course and permit Americans to place bets online legally with offshore casinos or, equally [...]
Internet gambling ban: traders caught by surprise.
Historical data for this prediction market show that outcome probability remained flat around 20%, since inception. Then, it peaked at 87% just after the bill passed the US Senate.
Source: TradeSports
Post Scriptum: I have copied and pasted the HTML code given by TradeSports (so the chart can be updated in the future), but it does [...]
Internet gambling ban has passed.
The US Congress has approved the internet gambling ban bill. (Reuters, Wash Post). [Thanks to NY-based trader Steve Roman for the link.]
TEN CEO John Delaney has been feeding the gullible media with the concept that, because TradeSports / InTrade is a prediction exchange (not a bookmaker, or a casino), he keeps sleeping like a log, [...]
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