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Do Oil Futures Prices Help Predict Future Oil Prices?
Do Oil Futures Prices Help Predict Future Oil Prices?
Via Mike Linksvayer in a comment…
Max Keiser says on Iranian TV that HubDub’s play-money prediction market on oil price has more predictive power than the oil derivative markets (oil futures markets).
Sounds like a stretch, at first glance, but listen to his argument, first, before you judge it.
Good plug of HubDub inside an economic analysis segment.
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Free Speech in Event Market Claims
In addition to a joint comment with a score of signers, I also responded to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)’s Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts by firing off a solo comment. I there focused soley on question 14, in which the CFTC asked, “Should certain underlying events or [...]
Did Jason Ruspini and friends cash in on huge moves in prices of oil, natural gas, coal and other parts of the energy patch, this semester?
Wall Street Journal $$$:
TradeSports reincorporates in two, just in time for NETeller’s immolation.
Tradesports seems to have completed its reincorporation as/ split into two separate entities, Tradesports and Intrade, just in time for the DOJ to immolate the NETeller founders for “conspiring” to enable online gambling. (The founders of NETeller had resigned their power before UIGEA became law.) So this tells us nothing about the reach of UIGEA, [...]
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