Since We Last Spoke: Sober Living, Online Harassment, and the Evolution of InTrade
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Death at the Summit
As CEO of Intrade, John Delaney harnessed the wisdom of the crowds, with often freakishly prescient results. Technocratic dreamers were ecstatic about the company's ability to predict the future, and maybe even reshape society. Today Delaney's company has collapsed and his body is entombed atop Mount Everest. A tale of bravado, bluster, and efficient markets.
Trading the Presidential Marketplace for an Outright Casino
One of the observations about the recently shuttered Intrade predictions market—at least when it came to American voting—was…
Intrade, We Hardly Knew Ye
The prediction market that shut down last week was fun, but it wasn't any better at predicting politics than polls are.