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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
Justin Wolfers didn’t inform the Freakonomics readers about InTrade’s mistake related to the contract statements of the ‘dictator departure markets’. – [RANT]
Justin Wolfers, Robin Hanson, James Surowiecki, John Stossel and the Wall Street Journal diarists [*] are not motivated by the love of the truth and the defense of the traders. They never say a word about the dark face of … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Ethics, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Market Contract Statements
Tagged bets, Betting, betting dispute, betting markets, bettors, contract statements, Ethics, event derivative markets, event derivatives, InTrade, James Surowiecki, John Stossel, Justin Wolfers, prediction market dispute, prediction market statements, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Wall Street Journal
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Justin Wolfers pumped up the shitty, play-money prediction exchange run by InTrade/WSJ.
Shit here. The fake-money exchange is pitiful, and to have a professor pumps up that shit is pitiful too. UPDTE: That was the 2008 election. Fortunately, this crappy exchange is dead. Here’s Freakonomics on the 2010 election.
The Whole Foods CEO on health care, veganism, and free markets
John Mackey on health care, veganism, and free markets “The last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a … Continue reading
The InTrade prices / probabilities are now part of the Wall Street Journal narrative.
Here, instance about Ben Benrnanke. The Intrade online wagering Web site puts 60% odds on reappointment. Ben Bernanke @ InTrade
The hype is over. The party is over. — Part V
InTrade’s play-money spinoffs have disintegrated into cyberspace. Even the one run by the Wall Street Journal and opportunistically pumped up and over-hyped by Justin Wolfers. I told my readers from day one that those spinoffs were not the real McCoy. … Continue reading
The most amazing journalistic thing I read this early morning
Nate Silver spanking the Wall Street Journal till their ass become as red as Sicilian tomatoes. -
Now that Joe Biden is the Democratic vice president nominee, what to think of Justin Wolfers’ August 1st column for the WSJ?
- The good point is that he dealt well with the fact that the VP prediction markets fed on primary indicators that are less reliable than the ones used for the political elections. – The bad point is that, at … Continue reading
Posted in All Best Posts Ever, Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Analysis (Data), Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry, Market Prices & Probabilities, Prediction Journalism
Tagged Democratic vice president nominee, Evan Bayth, event derivative markets, event derivatives, InTrade, Joe Biden, Justin Wolfers, Kathleen Sebelius, Politics, prediction market analysis, prediction market analysts, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, real-money prediction markets, Tim Kaine, US politics, vice president prediction markets, VP prediction markets, VP-candidate prediction markets, Wall Street Journal, WSJ
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Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project
- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET). – 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading
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Tagged acting CEO, BetFair, BetFair CEO, bloggers, brand-new media organization, CEO, David Yu, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Google, HubDub, HubDub CEO, InTrade, InTrade CEO, John Delaney, journalists, Justin Wolfers, mainstream media, Media, Midas Oracle Project, News, NewsFutures, NewsFutures CEO, Nigel Eccles, Open Media, prediction market journalism, prediction markets, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, web stats, Web visitors
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