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TV documentary on WikiLeaks – [VIDEO]

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Oprah incites the chicks to go buying an iPad 1 —and in February 2011, they’ll realize that what they really wanted is the iPad 2. – [VIDEO]

Addendum: The iPad 2 will have retina display, the gyroscope, the cameras, and, I hope, 500 GB of RAM.

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Aljazeera TV promotes the lie that prediction markets are “eerily accurate”, sucking up to InTrade’s PR and Hanson’s spinning. – [VIDEO]

Crappy journalism. Here for the debunking. More.

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“Wisdom of crowds” in popular culture, again

“The wisdom of crowds” has apparently seeped a bit into popular culture, or at least the geekier end of it. On the heels of British illusionist Derren Brown’s invoking of “the wisdom of crowds” as a (false) part of his … Continue reading

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James K. Galbraith on Max Keiser’s The Oracle

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95 million TV viewers for the Super Bowl 2009

WSJ: Only the Super Bowl, presidential debates, the Oscars and a few other broadcasts attract the tens of millions of viewers that major advertisers, including movie studios and big consumer-product makers like PepsiCo Inc., long to reach. – UPDATE: There … Continue reading

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Strange Bedfellows

FOX TV + HubDub Click on the VIDEO tab, and then click on PLAY. -

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Would InTrade or BetFair have done a better job predicting how many people would see the Barack Obama infomercial?

As I disclose on the other blog (Midas Oracle .COM), the HubDub traders wrongly thought that the (Socialist) Barack Obama informercial would have be seen by “more than 50 million”. No, no, no, no. It was 33.5 million, according to … Continue reading

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Yet another indispensable set of prediction markets that HubDub is the only exchange to run

To discover it, click here before 8 p.m. tonite, this Wednesday, October 29, 2008. – UPDATE: -

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Max Keiser is going to practice (an entertaining form of) prediction market analysis for BBC World News.

Max Keiser: CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY GLOBAL FINANCIAL MELTDOWN? NOT IF YOU HAD WATCHED THE ORACLE! Max Keiser looks into the future every Friday on BBC World . . . coming soon BBC World News is working with Max Keiser, … Continue reading

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