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Jim Rogers on Max Keisers The Oracle
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The Wonderful Madame Carla Bruni
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Will the marriage of President of France Nicolas Sarkozy to Carla Bruni survive for more than 2 years?
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When will Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni break up ?
Peter Schiff on Max Keisers The Oracle
With this 6th episode, The Oracle is finally out of beta. The show is now well structured.
It is both informative and entertaining —-and it has rhythm and style.
- The TV show has 3 parts, as you all know, and each of these 3 parts focuses on one single issue. Excellent.
- The interview of the main guest (this time, Peter Schiff) is well conducted and long enough so we can capture many insights —-not just snippets.
- The main guest is now a person of global stature —-as opposed to the French, German and Arab guests (with strong foreign accents) we had to endure in the previous episodes.
- Stacy Herbert (”-The Queen Of Facts”-) has finally been tamed. It was about time. (Women.) She now focuses on one single issue, introducing the issue of each of the 3 parts of the show.
- Her “-headlines”- are now usable —-they are now well readable on the TV screen. (She puts black headlines on a white screen, whereas The McLaughlin Group would rather put white headlines on a black screen. Both techniques are usable. It is a question of taste.)
- She gave us a very good chart in part one. I want her to show one chart in each of the 3 segments of the show. I WANT CHARTS, STACY.
- I never met Max Keiser in person. He was described to me as a friendly, low-key fella. But as soon as the red light flashes on the camera, he becomes another man —-a funny, sometimes hilarious, financial animal, who immediately becomes the center of the attention. There is that expression in English that sums it up: ‘-he is stealing the show’-, literally. He expresses his contrarian arguments in a Daffy Duck-like voice, with some kind of exuberant body language rarely seen on TV —-the fella is a spectacle by himself.
- I hope that The Oracle (the disco machine that beams out the predictions) will be re-introduced in the show. It was a good gimmick.
- I also hope they will feature prediction market charts, later on.
- Overall, the show is a very good piece of infotainment. I never quite saw this on TV before. There is the hilarity, but there is also the seriousness of dealing with the global banking, financial and economic crisis —-quite not a laughing matter in the first place. Quite a mix.
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Enough blogging.
Now, watch the show.
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James K. Galbraith on Max Keisers The Oracle
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James K. Galbraith
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HubDub CEO on Max Keisers The Oracle (BBC World News)
Cory Doctorow likes Max Keiser’-s TV show —- I do too.
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- Although I don’-t agree with them politically, Max Keiser is exceptionally charismatic and funny, and Stacy Herbert is very lively and competent.
- Max needs to invite a guest who is as lively and as literate in finance than he is. Otherwise, “-The Oracle”- will remain his show, as opposed to a good show.
- The TV format is a winner. Max is on a path to stardom.
- Nigel managed to plug his prediction exchange. Good.
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The Oracle, with Max Keiser
Episode One
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The Oracle, with Max Keiser – BBC World News
The Oracle (“-a satirical look into the future”-), with Max Keiser, on BBC World News.
I have just watched the first edition of this TV show.
- There is no mention of collective intelligence and prediction markets, alas.
- The format of the show is very well thought out. It is a winner. There is an intro with videos or charts, some cheap talks with the guests, and then “-The Oracle”- (a semi sphere at the center of the TV studio) beams out wildly and delivers a prediction, which the guests are invited to comment on.
- Max Keiser is almost awesome and Stacy Herbert (the co-host) is authoritative enough.
- It is infotainment —-think of Max Keiser as the Michael Moore of Wall Street.
- It is leftist —-that, you already knew.
- It is funny. The segment where Max Keiser impersonates Colin Powell at the United Nations is hilarious —-in the new UN speech, Saddam Hussein is replaced by the bankers, and the WMDs are the financial derivatives. A must see.
- The guests for the first edition were Jacques Attali, who is a French fraud (along with Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Minc) in my view, and a British actress known only to her family and friends. They were not stellar, but good enough.
- Next week, Nigel Eccles of HubDub will be a guest, I have been told.
- Max Keiser has a future in the televised infotainment industry.
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UPDATE: Episode One
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Playing fantasy sports is not gambling. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act includes a specific exemption for fantasy sports, provided the prizes are determined in advance and the imaginary teams dont correspond to any real teams.
New York Post
I expect TradeSports and BetFair to join this industry, one day.
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