Say ‘goodbye’ to InTrade

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It looks as though the site known for predicting outcomes couldn’t foretell its own demise… The number of people using Intrade has plummeted since a US government crackdown late last year, calling into doubt the online prediction market’s powers to divine the wisdom of crowds on matters ranging from election results to the stock market…. Read more »

Goodbye and good riddance, 112th Congress

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On Jan. 3, the 112th Congress of the United States of America finally ended. Thank God. To properly evaluate the 112th, consider the record of its predecessor, the 111th Congress, which ran from January 2009 to January 2011. The fighting 111th passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (better known as the “stimulus”), the Affordable… Read more »