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The best blogs on prediction markets

CFM: Blogs Midas Oracle: Links – Send me your blog URL, if you write on prediction markets —and I’ll Include it in the list (maybe ). The new kid on the block is The Quantified Pundit. Great blog name. Bookmark … Continue reading

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Pinching Adam Siegel’s nose… AGAIN.

Inkling Markets: What are some examples of public prediction markets? One of the first and oldest prediction markets [*] was run by the University of Iowa in 1998 [**] to predict the outcome of United States Presidential Elections. [***] In … Continue reading

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Meet David Perry of Consensus Point.

David Perry Photo Credit: Bryan Bass, for NewsWeek

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WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE + MSR: jwolfers is #67.

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Pinching Adam Siegel’s nose… gently.

Inkling Markets: What are some examples of public prediction markets? One of the first and oldest prediction markets [*] was run by the University of Iowa in 1998 [**] to predict the outcome of United States Presidential Elections. [***] In … Continue reading

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I think Robin’s being too hard on himself.

That’s what I was told by someone who knows him [Robin Hanson] for more than just years. So I figured out I should write up a little something, especially since I saw this morning that my previous blog post (Is … Continue reading

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Consensus Point’s Washington Stock Exchange gets scholars FOR FREE.

Cass Sunstein (on guns): Cass R. Sunstein is a contributing editor at The New Republic and a professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge and holds an unpaid position on … Continue reading

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REALITY MARKETS MORE POPULAR THAN INKLING MARKETS

The claim is made by the official Reality Markets blog, with the caveat that Alexa numbers can’t really be trusted. I’d keep in mind that Reality Markets is a managed play-money prediction exchange while Inkling Markets is an unmanaged play-money … Continue reading

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NewsFutures featured today in the French equivalent of the WSJ

La Tribune (no deep link, alas): [...] L’engouement des internautes est réel: newfutures.com vient de passer le cap des 100.000 inscrits. Aussi, pour Émile Servan-Schreiber, ces casinos de l’actualité anticiperaient l’avenir avec une pertinence supérieure à celle de n’importe quel … Continue reading

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The open-minded little world of Mister Jed Christiansen

The external links published on Jed Christiansen‘s little blog: Links Blogroll o Risk Markets and Politics o NewsFutures blog o Useable Markets o Oddhead blog o Midas Oracle Play-money Markets o NewsFutures o Inkling Markets o Washington Stock Exchange o … Continue reading

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