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The Wise Many

By Dave Mulcahey

Connoisseurs of the Strangelovian may recall last summer’s dustup over a plan hatched by Iran-Contra felon John Poindexter and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a peculiar futures market for political events. The Policy Analysis Market would function as an exchange in which the public could place bets on any number of possible political events in volatile parts of… return to article

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