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HOME = The Earth From Above

I think I computed why Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film about our Planet Earth is the buzz of the week all around the world —except in the U.S. If I am correct, they have a lawsuit in the U.S. with a beef producer. In the film, towards the end, you will see a giant cattle that [...]

Download HOME, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film — The Earth From Above

How to download Home, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film about Planet Earth from Above
“HOME” is a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is entirely composed of aerial shots of various places around Earth, taken in over 50 countries in the process. You can download the film till June 14, 2009. [See bottom of this post for why [...]

Do download HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film) before it is too late.

UPDATE: How to download Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film, HOME —the documentary about The Earth From Above
- I am not asking you to watch the film in full.
- I am not asking you to like the film.

- I am asking you to download the film from YouTube today —before they remove the file from the YouTube server.

Install [...]

Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises – TED 2009

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Smarkets want to attract bettors that are (allegedly) scared to death by BetFair’s complexity.

Smarkets TechCrunch Geek’n Rolla Pitch from Smarkets on Vimeo.
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Smarkets – Blog post

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Will enterprise prediction markets ever really take off? — Now, *my* answer.

It is a wonder, therefore, why more companies have not adopted them.
No need to “wonder“.
The Economist listed the hurdles that corporations face when they try out enterprise prediction markets for their internal forecasting. It is not as easy as the advocates of EPMs (Robin Hanson and his fanboys) tell you it is. They lie to [...]

Will prediction markets ever really take off?

Tyler Cowen asked the readers of his blog (Marginal Revolution, the #1 blog on economics) which questions Robin Hanson should be grilled with. Here is what I suggested:
The failure of enterprise prediction markets to take off, in spite of Robin Hanson pumping them up:
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13184829
Posted by: Midas Oracle at Mar 4, 2009 2:07:51 AM
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Robert E. Litan, Vice President for Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation

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Mortgage Crisis –> Credit Crisis –> Financial Crisis –> Economic Crisis –> THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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The anti-BetFair Premium Charges video reappears on YouTube under a new account.

The Ghost Of Premium Charges

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PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too?
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