If you’re not looking at the betting markets…

by on February 5, 2008 at 7:31 pm in Political Science | Permalink

You should be.  Right here.  C’mon people, turn your TVs off and go crash the InTrade servers, making sure you pay homage to Hayek and Robin Hanson along the way.

Russell L. Carter February 5, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Now 62-38. I guess we’ll learn something here. But that will be a couple of hours from now.

Question February 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Is it legal for us in the US to use Intrade?

PLW February 5, 2008 at 9:04 pm

Isn’t information only worth anything if it changes what action you take? Why follow blow-by-blow on election night when you are going to find out for sure what happened first thing in the morning, and you are unlikely to use the information before that?

John S. February 5, 2008 at 9:38 pm

I tried to set up an account on Intrade but couldn’t get my credit card to work. What am I supposed to do, go to Dublin and give them some cash?

Robert Olson February 5, 2008 at 10:30 pm

If Obama wins tonight, which is increasingly unlikely, I’d short his position like no tomorrow.

Harald K February 6, 2008 at 8:33 am

Pointer, as I have argued before, If you love them, short them. It creates incentives for other people to buy your contracts, and then go out and make your candidate win.

(You of course have to announce what you are doing, so that people don’t think all that shorting means that “someone has insider knowledge about his campaign!” etc.)

F February 6, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Pointer, if you don’t love any of them, sell your vote on EBay. What an increase in efficiency that would be.

深圳翻译公司 February 23, 2008 at 10:08 am

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