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New Zealand’s election gag law suspends iPredict’s political prediction markets. — [LINKS]

- Election gags and efficient markets. – Election gag.

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Prediction market manipulation — [LINK]

@ iPredict (New Zealand).

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Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street — [VIDEO]

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Exchanges are looking to grow by sealing mergers, investing in more profitable businesses, and capturing segments of trading that have long remained out of their grasp, everything from exotic derivatives to bonds. — [LINK]

The Future of Exchanges Is Now.

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How prediction markets help forecast consumers’ behaviors — [REPORT]

Forrester Research’s Roxana Strohmenger has been caught red hand sucking up to our Paul Hewitt. Roxana Strohmenger (e-mail me at chrisfmasse at gmail dot com to get a copy of the report): At the end of the day, a prediction … Continue reading

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Markets can be designed to protect Mother Nature. — [VIDEO]

How the market can keep streams flowing: More.

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Horace Dediu, smartphone market analyst – [PORTRAIT]

Asymco.

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Burton Malkiel on the theory of efficient markets and index funds. – [VIDEO]

[Download this post to watch the embedded video if your feed reader does not show it to you.] Wikipedia: Efficient-market hypothesis.

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Masonomics

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Jason Trost on BetFair: They haven’t innovated much, and they’re too pricey.

Jason Trost: Slow innovation: Aside from a few cosmetic tweaks, reliability improvements and the Starting Price feature, Betfair hasn’t innovated much over the last few years. For a company that boasts several hundred developers, it should be able to release … Continue reading

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