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2006 North Korea Missile prediction market: a scandal signed TradeSports-InTrade

Did BetFair mess the expiry of the 2006 US Senate prediction markets?… UK blogger Mike Smithson thinks so. Anybody who had money on last November’s US MidTerms Senate market with Betfair will know what happens when the rules are not … Continue reading

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Prediction Markets for Businesses

Robin Hanson interviewed by Business Week’s Rachel King – MP3 – (MP3 mirror) – 2006-08-07 – Prediction markets are a kind of betting markets [*], creating for the purpose of answering a question. – Quite broadly applicable: predicting sales, product … Continue reading

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