Monthly Archives: November 2012
Intrade Won’t Take U.S. Bets
Intrade Won’t Take U.S. Bets
wsj.com
“Intrade said it would no longer accept bets made by U.S. residents, a move that came just hours after U.S. regulators filed a civil complaint against the company over its commodities-focused markets.” It will be interesting to see the impact that this will have upon the level of interest in and reliability of prediction markets for US-centric events, which make up the lion’s share of Intrade contract offerings.
Still think you can beat the market?
Tim Harford — Article — Still think you can beat the market?.
Quoting from this article, “The efficient markets hypothesis is surely false. What is striking is that it is very close to being true. For the Warren Buffetts of the world, “almost true” is not true at all. For the rest of us, beating the market remains an elusive dream.”
The Human Toll of Violence in Gaza, Israel – The Numbers Guy
The Human Toll of Violence in Gaza, Israel – The Numbers Guy – WSJ.
“Bombings in Gaza, and rocket attacks on Israel, leave death in their wake — as well as questions about how to count, categorize and interpret the casualty counts.”
Micro stars, macro effects | The Economist
Economics: Micro stars, macro effects | The Economist. Quoting from this article, “ON THE face of it, economics has had a dreadful decade: it offered no prediction of the subprime or euro crises, and only bitter arguments over how to solve them. But alongside these failures, a small group of the world’s top microeconomists are quietly revolutionising the discipline. Working for big technology firms such as Google, Microsoft and eBay, they are changing the way business decisions are made and markets work.”]]>
Micro stars, macro effects | The Economist
Economics: Micro stars, macro effects | The Economist.
Quoting from this article, “ON THE face of it, economics has had a dreadful decade: it offered no prediction of the subprime or euro crises, and only bitter arguments over how to solve them. But alongside these failures, a small group of the world’s top microeconomists are quietly revolutionising the discipline. Working for big technology firms such as Google, Microsoft and eBay, they are changing the way business decisions are made and markets work.”
Our College Crisis: A PowerPoint Presentation by Bill Gates
Our College Crisis: A PowerPoint Presentation by Bill Gates – The Atlantic.
Mr. Gates raises a number of interesting points about “…our shockingly low (college) graduation rates” – too bad he resorted to PowerPoint to make them!
The Top 5 Corporate Twitter Disasters of 2012
The Top 5 Corporate Twitter Disasters of 2012.
What were they thinking???
Liberal Women Wish for More Sex. Why?
Liberal Women Wish for More Sex. Why?.
Fascinating parsing of the data from the New Family Structures Study (NFSS) by UT-Austin sociology professor Mark Regnerus on the relationships between politics, religion, and sex…
How "The Life of Pi" Raises the Ultimate Postmodern Question of Faith
How “The Life of Pi” Raises the Ultimate Postmodern Question of Faith.]]>