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Political Markets

Markets are efficient for aggregating information I've been told; makes private information public. It seems the University of Iowa has taken that idea to the realm of politics. They've established a market for political outcomes. Is a market better at predicting the future than polls? I don't know, but I'm looking forward to buying some futures contracts on Kerry.

election market.bmp

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