Tag Archives: Mike Giberson

Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing â€œexpertsâ€ produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and CÃ©sar ChÃ¡vez, and instead add history about the â€œmotivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.â€

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Our good friend Mike Giberson has landed in a state governed by crazy lunatics.

Posted in Politics | Tagged bigots, lunatics, Mike Giberson, Texas, United States Of America | 3 Comments

Become Mike Giberson’s friend on FaceBook

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Michael Giberson @ FaceBook If you go to Mike’s wall, you will see that I broke the FaceBook etiquette. I can’t be stopped.

Posted in People | Tagged FaceBook, Michael Giberson, Mike Giberson | Leave a comment

Prediction markets are about lowering transaction costs. That’s how sports come in.

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

I found John Blank’s letter to the CFTC (discovered by Mike Giberson) as interesting as Vernon Smith’s one. Here’s the PDF file —in case you missed it. – I would like to focus on John Blank’s 3-point introduction. In short, … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Analysis (Meta), Finance, Regulations | Tagged betting markets, CFTC, Chicago, event contracts, event derivative contracts, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Finance, Internet-empowered population, John Blank, laws, Mike Giberson, prediction markets, Regulations, retail users, Sean Park, United Kingdom, Vernon Smith, Web-based derivative markets, Web-based trading | 3 Comments

The term “event markets” sucks —and the uncritical thinkers using this crappy term suck too.

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Google: “event markets” — Funny enough, the first link is to the Futures Industry Association, which promoted the term… and the second to CFM, which advises not to use that term (see the bottom of the CFM frontpage). – Just … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Humor | Tagged bet exchanges, betmarkets, betting exchanges, betting markets, CFTC, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivatives, event markets, Futures Industry Association, Google, Humor, Mike Giberson, prediction exchanges, prediction markets | 1 Comment

Right-click on Mike Linksvayer’s mugshot to open, in another browser tab, the discussion thread on baseball decision-aid markets, with Mike Giberson, and an elliptic comment from Robin Hanson.

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Midas Oracle Archives | Tagged baseball, decision-aid markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, Mike Giberson, Mike Linksvayer, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Sports | Leave a comment

Are you a MSR addict like Mike Giberson? Have nothing to do this week-end? Wanna trade on a play-money prediction exchange instead of watching cable TV? Wanna win an i-Phone?

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Then Media Predict is for you. -

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Tagged Apple, Cable TV, i-Phone, Media Predict, Mike Giberson, prediction markets | Leave a comment

Polls Vs. Prediction Markets

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Asia Times: [...] Outperforming Taiwan’s polls shouldn’t be hard. They’re notoriously bad as a forecast of election outcomes. In late 2006, for example, many media polls underrated the pro-independence party’s support – a recurring problem. Taiwan’s prediction markets did … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice) | Tagged Asia, candidate, Center for Prediction Markets, Director, Europe, event derivative markets, event derivatives, fortune-telling tool, historical prediction markets, Kaohsiung, Koleman Strumpf, Lin Jih-wen, Ma Ying-jeou, media polls, Mike Giberson, polls, prediction markets, Taiwan, United States | 2 Comments

Wrongly Crafted Headlines Of The Day

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Exchange bets favor Obama for Democratic nomination. Punters more accurate than polls, says study. The journalos emphasize the bets and the punters. I would highlight the markets and the exchanges, rather. We should point to the information aggregation mechanism. Mike … Continue reading →

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The Gravatars are back in the Midas Oracle comments.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

They were shortly off due to a software bug, which is resolved now, thanks to Ronald Heft. So, now we can appreciate Mike Giberson‘s new face picture —his old one, published on his website (and now pulled down), made him … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Information Technology, Midas Oracle Administration | Tagged Mike Giberson, Ronald Heft, software bug | Leave a comment

Linear Programming – Combined Value Trading – Parimutuel Call Market – Combinatorial Call Markets

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- David Pennock: [...] Each order is associated with a decision variable x that ranges between 0 and 1, encoding the fraction of the order that the auctioneer can accept. There is one constraint per outcome that ensures that the … Continue reading →

Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Economics, Mechanism Designs | Tagged auctioneer, David Pennock, Linear Programming, Linear Programming - Combined Value Trading, Mike Giberson, National Basketball Association | 2 Comments

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