Prediction Markets + Market Predictions = Collective Forecasting That Pays Off

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Texas Governor Rick Perry on how he fought to control government waste in the Lone Star State.

A multi-million dollar Bugatti sports car driven into Texas’s saltwater marsh

Our Mike Giberson was not at the helm.

Don’t speak English. –> Get arrested… by the Dallas Police.

I am in favor of the English language being imposed on all Earth’s citizens. I am serious.
CNN – Dallas Cop Gives Ticket To Women For Not Speaking English:

Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”

Our good friend Mike Giberson has landed in a state governed by crazy lunatics.

Enterprise Prediction Markets = The wisdom of crowds comes to the enterprise.

Here are short excerpts of the Forrester report on enterprise prediction markets and companies that provide software for enterprise prediction markets.
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The Forrester executive summary:
The “wisdom of crowds” is capturing the attention of corporate strategists across the globe, and, as a result, many are now looking to prediction markets — speculative markets in which traders collectively [...]

James Surowiecki was in Texas (Michael Giberson’s new land), yesterday, spinning educators (interested in technology) about prediction markets and collective intelligence.

National Educational Computing Conference (“the premier forum in which to learn, exchange, and survey the field of educational technology“)
Classic stuff about the wisdom of crowds, but people enjoyed it.
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The Orb @ Texas Tech University

The best researchers on prediction markets

CFM: Scholars
Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.)
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Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Bernd H. Ankenbrand – Bernd Ankenbrand – (Lecturer, Witten/Herdecke [...]

Are prediction markets all hat and no cattle?

Asks Lucy Vega.
How are you going to get figures, Lucy?
Nigel, what the hell were you doing in Texas??
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Lockhart sounds like a fine place to visit, for those who will be down in Texas over this coming week-end.

Lockhart, Texas

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