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EXPIRATIONS: Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana

Expired prediction markets InTrade – -

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75,000 people turned out to hear Barack Obama at Waterfront Park, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

- Oregon’s Democratic Primary – InTrade – BetFair – Kentucky’s Democratic Primary – InTrade – BetFair – NewsFutures Some delegates from FL or MI will be seated at the Democratic Convention. © NewsFutures – First look at individual states for … Continue reading

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Open-Source Blogging Software

Read & Write Web (excellent blog name, by the way ): To understand why Six Apart is releasing an open source version of Movable Type, we need to briefly revisit its past. Movable Type was once the darling of the … Continue reading

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The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications

The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications – University of California at Riverside, Palm Desert, California, U.S.A. – 2007-05-10~22 Gambling: Design and Implementation 1 – “An Examination of the Determinants of Biased Behaviour in a Market … Continue reading

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John Delaney – InTrade – US Politics – Fox News – YouTube

John Delaney – InTrade – US Politics – Fox News – YouTube – 2007-02-27 Very good explainer. John Delaney mentions Justin Wolfers and Robin Hanson. It could be that the papers he refers about were written by the Iowa Electronic … Continue reading

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And the winner is… LANCE FORTNOW.

Page Titles – Uniq. Views – Pageviews – [since blog inception, according to Google Analytics] — Midas Oracle – 9,227 – 16,008 Midas Oracle » Blog Archive » “If Virginia and Montana go democratic then the markets predicted every race … Continue reading

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REPLY–Bo Cowgill (“Color me perplexed…”)

Bo “the Google guy” Cowgill unleashes a counter-broadside: COLOR ME PERPLEXED by Alex Foreshaw’s [snarky sic] rant about this recent TechCentralStation article. Alex [believes] the article was an ideological, intellectually dishonest knee-jerk defense of free markets. Did we read the … Continue reading

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TechCentralStation grasps for one too many “wisdom of crowds” straws.

The free-market cheerleaders of TechCentralStation are only the latest media to insist, in defiance of all available evidence, that the prediction markets (Tradesports) called the Senate contest as correctly as intuition could justify, even though it was still completely wrong. … Continue reading

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Barry Ritholtz thinks that, maybe, the prediction markets died on Election Day 2006.

Our good friend Barry Ritholtz is quick to draw funest conclusions: While the Political futures got the House right, it appears they were wildly wrong about the Senate. That would be quite a blow to these thinly traded, tiny markets. … Continue reading

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OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMENTERS OF THE MARGINAL REVOLUTION BLOG

Hello Professor Tyler Cowen and all the commenters, #1. Professor Lance Fortnow made a specific point: taken one day before Election Day, the TradeSports’s prediction markets of the individual races for the US Senate were accurate (provided that Virginia and … Continue reading

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