My yesterday’-s post about the Obama–-Clinton prediction markets was the most popular Midas Oracle story of that Monday. Hummmm…- No idea why…- I was not helped by Google Search or by an external blogger. Sounds like our Midas Oracle web … Continue reading
Robin Hanson: Hal and Silas, endorsing this proposal does not mean that I would not prefer other proposals- it just means I prefer this to the status quo. Chris Masse is an example of someone who has difficulty accepting this … Continue reading
– Oregon’-s Democratic Primary – InTrade – BetFair – Kentucky’-s Democratic Primary – InTrade – BetFair – NewsFutures Some delegates from FL or MI will be seated at the Democratic Convention.© NewsFutures – First look at individual states for the … Continue reading
– How to use the Midas Oracle feeds…- – Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: A second look at HedgeStreet’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets” Since YooPick opened their door, Midas Oracle has been getting, daily, 2 … Continue reading
The eyes-wide-opened Alexis Perrier notes that many “-mainstream media”- do talk about political prediction markets, these days. But that’-s a superficial coverage —-basically, explaining to morons (surfacing from their Afghan cave) what InTrade does. The real thing is prediction market … Continue reading
– Economic forecasters do pay attention to InTrade. – Most InTrade traders are US citizens, or, at least, US residents —-not “-foreigners”-. – I could go on. This post is riddled with inaccuracies. – It is the kind of stuff … Continue reading
Don’-t you love the Web? Within 15 minutes after my posting my absolute and definitive refusal to publish any bits about the VP prediction markets, I received a long rebuttal by Google’-s Bo Cowgill —-whose great prediction market paper is … Continue reading
Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: Prediction Markets Meet professor Justin Wolfers. Become “friend” with me on Google E-Mail so as to share feed items with me within Google Reader. Nigel Eccles’ flawed “vision” about HubDub shows that he … Continue reading
Excellent. Ex=ce=llent. – Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse: Become “friend” with me on Google E-Mail so as to share feed items with me within Google Reader. Nigel Eccles’ flawed “vision” about HubDub shows that he hasn’t any. How … Continue reading
Charles Plott has nailed it. – I would lay out this dichotomy: Some of our academics, consultants, and exchange executives have sold the prediction markets as the ultimate forecasting tool —-which is true, but people translated that as “-this is … Continue reading
