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The British prime minister will leave office this month —dixit the BetFair traders.

Gordon Brown to leave office before the end of June 2009: Addendum: To the despair of both Prof Panos and Wiser Than The Crowd, here is a link back to the recent “failures” of the prediction markets.

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Person-to-person freeform betting

Some time ago on Midas Oracle there was reference to flutter.com as one of the first sites that allowed users to create their own markets. I was lucky enough to be a product manager with flutter from mid-2000 through to … Continue reading

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Novartis won approval from an EU drug panel for a new high blood pressure pill called Rasilez.

Wall Street Journal – $$$ Pharmaceutical industry prediction markets, anyone?? — PharmaDAQ – Now they say that it will open it on August 1st, 2007. Will Abbott reverse its decision to withdraw medicines from Thailand amid the generic drugs row … Continue reading

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Will Hillary Clinton’s Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act become US law under its current name?

We will launch PharmaDAQ as soon as we have sufficient questions. Will Abbott reverse its decision to withdraw medicines from Thailand amid the generic drugs row before 30th June 07? – [Abb TL] Will Elsai, Pfizer and the Alzheimer’s Society … Continue reading

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17 New British Casinos

Via Betting Market, the U.K. government: After careful consideration of the proposals and all the relevant evidence against the remitted criteria, the Panel recommend that the area in which a regional casino should be licensed is the City of Manchester. … Continue reading

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