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Once again, resignation prediction markets failed to the task.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigns. More. (Good riddance, by the way.)

Doug Mills / The New York Times

Once again, Chris Masse was right on the money:
[...] Just like the Olympic City prediction markets, the resignation prediction markets are rarely predictive because there aren’t any reliable advanced indicators to guide the traders. The Olympic committee is [...]

Does this prediction market chart look predictive to you?

Karl Rove will resign from the White House.

Emile Servan-Schreiber:
Chris, how exactly do you define “predictive”? If your criterion is “last trading price above 50%”, that would betray a very limited understanding of the nature of both probability and binary markets. That’s a debate you and I have had ever since the first days of chrisfmasse.com [...]

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