Tag Archives: New York Post

Playing fantasy sports is not gambling. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act includes a specific exemption for fantasy sports, provided the prizes are determined in advance and the imaginary teams don’t correspond to any real teams.

New York Post I expect TradeSports and BetFair to join this industry, one day. -

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Matt Drudge links to a NY Post story about InTrade’s VP prediction markets.

Drudge Report: GAMBLERS BET ON HILL & MITT FOR VEEP… New York Post: GAMBLERS BET ON HILL & MITT FOR VEEP. -

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New Product Innovation: Enterprise Prediction Markets Can Help.

Via the New York-based Yahoo! Research scientist who was video-interviewed by the New York Post, the other day; Teck-Hua Ho & Kay-Yut Chen: New Product Blockbusters: The Magic and Science of Prediction Markets Teck-Hua Ho & Kay-Yut Chen 50/1 (Fall … Continue reading

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Speculating on event derivative markets is not “investing”.

Ultra pertinent remark from the Club For Growth blogger: [The New York Post video] is an informative video, but I want to quibble about two things. I view the term “investing” as the act of buying an asset with the … Continue reading

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Video on InTrade’s political prediction markets

- Via Yahoo! Research scientist David Pennock (pictured in the video, with, in the background, a whiteboard full of complex mathematical equations, which impressed the young New York Post journalist)… this New York Post video (embedded just below). – - … Continue reading

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Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it’s death. You’re giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.

Dixit Eliot Spitzer, the then-New York attorney general. Frightening. New York Post Reason magazine ABC News Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Slate – - Psstt… Somebody registered Client9.com just after news broke…

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Eric Zitzewitz’s 10 minutes of fame

Turns out he has published a paper on Eliot Spitzer —PDF file. – New York Post New York Times Wall Street Journal Portfolio ABC News ABC News Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal -

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French President-Elect Nicolas Sarkozy (R) to Bo Cowgill (R) and all the other Yankees (Rs & Ds): YOU ARE MY FRIENDS.

Google’s Republican-leaning Bo Cowgill rejoices. New York Post: OUR NEW AMI SALUTES AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL The Wall Street Journal: President Sarkozy — But don’t expect Sarkozy to revert Chirac’s “no” policy on the Iraq war. —

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ProTrade = The Jock Exchange, the first public stock market that trades in professional athletes??

Dominique Basulto, the extraordinary blogger who writes for Endless Innovation, sends me a couple of intriguing links. — New York Post (about Portfolio, the new business magazine I told you about on Sunday): [...] One of the more riveting pieces … Continue reading

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