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Senators and Intelligence

Posted by Peter on November 1, 2004
Posted in: Idea Futures, U.S. Politics. Tagged: prediction markets.

Voters in Oregon and the Dakotas should remember what their Senators said about the DARPA project to create a futures market designed to provide information about terrorism. Ask yourself whether our presidential election would be decided more intelligently if we had a futures contract that predicted how many people would die in terrorist attacks over the next four year if Bush stays, and a similar one for a Kerry presidency. Many press reports that describe the reactions of Ron Wyden (Oregon), Byron Dorgan (North Dakota), and Tom Daschle (South Dakota) to the DARPA project are available here.

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