All Posts Tagged With: "prediction markets"
The Long and Short of Short Selling
Short selling is a little-understood, much-maligned tactic by which traders can profit from their belief that a company’s stock is overvalued. Following the financial problems of the last two years, short selling has come under fire, with new or revived regulations proposed to curb the practice. It is unpatriotic, destructive, and destabilizing, say the critics. [...]
5Jan2010 | Warren C. Gibson | 12 comments | ContinuedGovernment Stifles the Wisdom of Crowds
Who will be our next president? If you want an accurate guess, don’t ask the pundits. Go where people put their money where their mouths are. Intrade.com, for example. It’s a prediction market, basically a futures market like those where people bet on the future price of oil, gold, and pork bellies. But at Intrade, [...]
1Sep2008 | John Stossel | 0 comments | Continued-
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