Tag Archives: Slate

InTrade prediction markets “got health care wrong”… — dixit Daniel Gross of Slate, a site I will no longer read.

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Slate’s Daniel Gross: Don’t Short Obama Why political futures markets got the health care bill so wrong. By Daniel Gross Posted Monday, March 22, 2010, at 6:05 PM ET It would be very difficult to tote up all the times … Continue reading →

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Did Slate investigate the InTrade account of Ben Shannon (alias “Jesse Livermore”, who blogs at “Wiser Than The Crowd”)?

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Here is the original request from Slate: Slate magazine looking for Intrade junkies Hi there Intraders, I’m working on a story for Slate about the people who drive prediction markets –especially those who are very good at it. I’m interested … Continue reading →

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Slate ditch the prediction markets for the polls.

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Slate used to promote the “why vote when you can bet” webspot at the top of its frontpage during the primaries. Now, it promotes a polls tracker for the rest of the 2008 US presidential elections. -

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The John Edwards Non-Affair… is making Memeorandum (twice), again.

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Slate’s Jack Shafer (my favorite libertarian journalist –both small “L” and capitalized “L”): [...] visiting the woman who recently gave birth to the out-of-wedlock child of a married campaign aide is completely OK. But meeting her at a Beverly Hills … Continue reading →

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The John Edwards Non-Affair

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Interesting experiment in blog journalism. Who do you trust? The Slate blogger or that blogger? I’m truly puzzled. – Google News – UPDATE -

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You, the Midas Oracle readers, are a bunch of lazy bastards…!!!… — Take that, loafers…!!!…

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The provocative title of this post ( ) refers to the fact that Internet citizens don’t read on the Web. They scan. – - I’ve just read a Slate article that recaps Jakob Nielsen’s teachings —I highly recommend it to … Continue reading →

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Oh, Jesus: The editor of The Big Money (a business site that WashPo’s Slate will launch soon) misunderstands the prediction markets.

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- His anti-scientific, simplistic arguments: They’re too small. The stakes are too low. They’re too slow to react to events. – He reaches the wrong conclusion: To get the maximum use out of them, we must—as with political polls—learn to … Continue reading →

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Since Chris must sleep at some time (I think)…

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Alex Kirtland

… I’ll alert you to a developing story. [Slate's Daniel Gross: Why were the political futures markets so wrong about Obama and Clinton?] Thanks to a friend. ~alex

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