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What InTrade CEO John Delaney told the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): July 4th 2008 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Three Lafayette Centre 1155 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20581 U.S.A. Attention: Office of the Secretariat RE: â€œConcept Release … Continue reading →

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Based on the analysis of some 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces after the invasion and thousands of hours of interrogations of former officials in Saddam’s government now in US custody, there is no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda.

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

ABC News PDF file

Posted in Politics | Tagged ABC, Al Qaeda, Iraq, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, Saddam's government, United States | Leave a comment

WILL GMU PROFESSOR ROBIN HANSON LOSE HIS SHIRT, ONCE AGAIN???

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Most Honest Person of the Year 2004: Prof. Robin Hanson, who placed a bet with TradeSports/InTrade, lost 100% of his speculative investment, and did not hide in a spider hole (as I would have done to make sure the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities | Tagged prediction markets, Professor, Robin Hanson, ROBIN HANSON LOSE, Saddam Hussein, United States | Leave a comment

Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink + James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom Of Crowds

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

— What Do We Mean When We Talk About Intuition? – by James Surowiecki [...] This suggests that the real challenge is figuring out which problems can be solved by rapid cognition and which are better solved by a calculating, … Continue reading →

Posted in Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds | Tagged James Surowiecki, Malcolm Gladwell, officer, Saddam Hussein, United States, United States Navy, USD, Van Riper | Leave a comment

Fox News is bad, therefore Rupert Murdoch is bad, therefore Rupert Murdoch buying the Wall Street Journal is bad.

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Quite a simplistic reasoning, right? Paul Krugman is not a sophisticated thinker. That said, Paul Krugman has one good point: In October 2003, the nonpartisan Program on International Policy Attitudes published a study titled â€œMisperceptions, the media and the Iraq … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Ethics, Politics | Tagged Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Paul Krugman, Paul Wolfowitz, Republican Party, Rupert Murdoch, Saddam Hussein, The Wall Street Journal, United States, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment