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Economist Robert Shiller on the U.S. economy

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Robert Shiller: Insurance, hedging, risk management, efficiency, etc.

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ROBERT SHILLER: “We need prediction markets…” on future house prices.

Via Stacy Herbert (Max Keiser‘s special someone) Video – spot the last minute If you are reading this in a feed reader, and if the video does not appear embedded just below this present sentence, then download this post to … Continue reading

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Hal Varian becomes Google’s chief economist.

— Via Greg Mankiw (whom you will have to read between the lines), this New York Times piece: The View column will now be written by a rotating panel of outside economists. Besides Mr. Mankiw, it will include Alan Blinder, … Continue reading

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Macro Shares: Prediction Markets via Stock Exchanges?

Peter McCluskey at Overcoming Bias dot com: Today the American Stock Exchange started trading the first pair of a new kind of security that works in roughly the way prediction markets could be designed if SEC regulation and a stock … Continue reading

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