Crowdsourcing the NCAA Tournament New York Times (blog) Using prediction markets to guess the likelihood of future events is not new; solutions to various problems relying on the wisdom of crowds are increasingly ...
Is a Film Futures Market a Good Idea? Seeking Alpha (blog) All this depends on the accuracy of long-term prediction markets—I would say the verdict is still out on this question, but you can have a look at some of ...
David Warsh: Three books about the credit-default zoo Providence Journal Credit default swaps were essentially prediction markets. They gave force to those differences of opinion. (As Warren Buffett puts it at one point in ...
The truth about the wisdom of crowds National At least now they have plenty of data, gathered from the host of “prediction markets” now available online, many of which are impressively reliable. ...
How to Become an Insta-Expert: A Confession New York Times (blog) And so these forecasts were simply a fun application of prediction markets. By quickly scanning the latest market prices, I managed to become an ...
EDITORIAL: The odds of a government health-care takeover Washington Times Intrade - the prediction markets that have proved so accurate in forecasting everything from election outcomes to who is going to win "American Idol" ...
An Economist's View of the New Oscar Voting New York Times (blog) Follow the prediction markets. Right now, they suggest that the only close race is Best Picture, and the markets give a slight edge to The Hurt Locker, ...
Playing the prediction markets GuruFocus.com Prediction markets provide an interesting venue for gauging the probability of an event based on the trading of both informed and uninformed participants. ...
Gold medal for predictions msnbc.com The conventional wisdom in the sports world - including the conventional wisdom initially reflected in prediction markets such as Inkling and Hubdub ...
