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more on : DARPA "Terrorism Futures Market" to be dropped
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:51:18 -0400
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:26:44 -0700 From: Ian Stoba <ian () babcockbrown com> Subject: Re: [IP] : DARPA "Terrorism Futures Market" to be dropped To: dave () farber net Perhaps the plan was abandoned because the Pentagon learned that a very active market in terrorism futures has already existed for some time. TradeSports is a live (i.e. real money at risk) marketplace where futures are traded on, among many other things, future security alert levels and the likelihood of Osama bin Laden's capture. Here is the current view of their market in "current events":https://www.tradesports.com/jsp/datafeed/liveprices/ LivePrices.jsp?eventclassinput=Current%20Events&location=LivePricesNote: I am not affiliated with TradeSports, but I find the concept fascinating. --Ian On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Dave Farber wrote:July 29, 2003 Pentagon Said to Abandon Plan for Futures Market on Terror By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will abandon a plan to establish a futures market to help predict terrorist strikes, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said he spoke by phone with the program's director, "and we mutually agreed that this thing should be stopped." Warner announced the decision not long after Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle took to the floor to denounce the program as "an incentive actually to commit acts of terrorism." Warner made the announcement during a confirmation hearing for retired Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, nominated to be Army chief of staff.------------------------------------- You are subscribed as ian () babcockbrown com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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