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What’s the best gift?

Yesterday evening, NBC News had a segment on oil vouchers. Today, Felix Salmon points to lottery tickets. -

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Devoting the whole NBC Nightly News bulletin to Tim Russert’s passing was worst than beaming out porn.

John Cole: Let’s Get Something Straight By: John Cole June 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm I liked Tim Russert, even though I thought his BS gotcha nonsense was thorough idiocy and not helping the debate at all. He was a … Continue reading

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Iraq War = “not necessary”, “a serious strategic blunder” — US News Media = “complicit enablers” in the manipulation of the public (“the propaganda campaign”) — George W. Bush turned away “from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”

- Check what he wrote on Katrina and on Condoleeza Rice. – And, now, the clincher: [Scott McClellan] does not exempt himself from failings — “I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted … Continue reading

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Barack Obama will finish off Hillary Clinton by June 15.

- Lawrence O’Donnell (a leftist journalist –but a good one, whom I appreciate): A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. [...] Yes, Clinton spokespersons publicly seem to … Continue reading

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Why the 3 Midas Oracle blogs, the InTrade-TradeSports blog, the BetFair-TradeFair blog, the Betdaq blog, the Iowa Electronic Markets blog, the Hollywood Stock Exchange blog, the NewsFutures blog, the Freakonomics blog, the Odd Head blog, the Alpha Thesis blog, the Caveat Bettor blog, etc., should all be part of a giant, inter-linked, meta conversation about prediction markets.

[I]n the blogosphere, [] competition is a good thing, not a bad thing. I want other finance blogs to launch, the more the better. And I want them to be written by keener minds than mine. The more that happens, … Continue reading

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It should be noted that virtually everyone got it wrong.

… wrote NBC News Brian Williams. So why picking on the prediction markets, then? (Question to Daniel Gross, Niall O’Connor, Paul Krugman, JC Kommer, Barry Ritholtz, etc.)

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Ron Paul Courageously Speaks the Truth.

Ron Paul on Jay Leno (NBC’s Tonite Show)

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NBC News Tim Russert (the host of Meet The Press) would have not expired the Larry Craig contract too early.

“[I]t is my intent to resign from the Senate, effective September 30 [2007]“, said US Senator Larry Craig. (Important note: In that same output, he did not say that he would not seek another term.) Based on this vague statement … Continue reading

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Should the Hollywood Stock Exchange become a real-money betting exchange?

Via Max Keiser, Trader Daily ($$$): Hollywood Ending – Trader Daily – October 4, 2007 – by Robert LaFranco A decade ago, a Wall Street trader and an L.A. dealmaker united to remake the movie industry in the image of … Continue reading

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Would any serious newsroom invite Justin Wolfers in 2008 to report on political election prediction markets?

THAT MAY BE. — Resident Publications: [...] Wolfers predicted that cable news shows would turn to prediction-market experts for analysis in 2008. “My forecast is that they’ll either have someone in the studio whose job it is to track the … Continue reading

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