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Carl Bernstein on Rupert Murdoch — [VIDEO]

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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. -

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Mystification, demystification, value assessment, and prediction markets

Justin Wolfers: Prediction markets can yield valuable insight into the dynamics of political campaigns, a conclusion we’ve drawn from years of intensive study and research. We’ve even proselytized about the value of these markets, extolling their ability to yield sharper … Continue reading

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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

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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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