Best Buy wins the prediction market award of the Year 2007.
Chris F. Masse December 29th, 2007
Jed Christiansen picking up some highlights of the Year 2007:
Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:* Best Buy rolling markets out to every employee
This is one of the most exciting developments of 2007, though something that certainly hasn’t hit the mainstream press, yet. This should be an excellent test of everything that the prediction market community has been discussing for the past number of years.
- Reality-Mined Prediction Markets
- ALAN GREENSPAN: "I still believe there is a greater than 50 per cent probability of recession."
- No recession?
- Shrinking Federal Reserves
- Inspectd.com allows you to test your stock market skills against real historical data. They'll show you a random chart from the past, and you try to guess whether the stock rose or dropped. They'll even give you $100,000 in play money to test your skill.
- The Death of the Hedge Fund Alpha?
- If you have 10 bottles of water, and one bottle had poison in it, and you didn’t know which one, you probably wouldn’t drink out of any of the 10 bottles; that’s basically what we’ve got there.
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