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Maybe the self-defined “pragmatists” in America could look into how the Britons view the issue. Spot the 3 occurences of the phrase “gambling and prediction markets”. Those 2 seem to go hand in hand. Will the US “pragmatists” acknowledge that?

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Gambling, Prediction Markets and Public Policy @ Nottingham Trent University @ Nottingham, England, Great Britain, E.U. – 2008-09-15~16 – In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in expenditure on various forms of gambling and prediction markets, including casinos, … Continue reading →

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No more anonymized trading data, please. State your source(s).

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

I think that’s the takeaway from the BetFair blog fiasco. My questions are still unanswered this morning. What data was used to concoct that dithyrambic write-up about the predictive power of the “betting markets” on the 2008 US primaries and … Continue reading →

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