An interesting thing is happening in Chicago. While all year long the price of oil and ethanol has been climbing at a steady pace (no surprise there), the price of carbon in both Europe and Chicago has been fairly steady … at least until the end of January ’08, when suddenly prices in Chicago (at [...]
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US Carbon Prices In Chicago
March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
Tags:Chicago·Europe·oil·United States
Interview with Dan Kelly, CEO of Sparter
November 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Financial Markets, Interviews, Virtual World Markets
Dan Kelly, CEO of Sparter, graciously agreed to speak with me over the Thanksgiving holiday. I encourage you to take the time and read this, since Dan spoke about a number of fascinating topics, such as gold farmers, virtual currency arbitrage (or lack thereof), scarcity in Virtual Worlds, and delivery risk. UsableMarkets: How did you [...]
Tags:Asia·Bessemer Venture Partners·Dan Kelly·eBay·Europe·online communities·online community·online games·online games industry·online goods·online marketing·payment systems·Sparter·Thanksgiving·USD·white label solution
I Wonder … IEM, InTrade, eBay, and McKinsey
April 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Prediction Markets
A recent trip to London has constrained my time somewhat, but there have been some interesting articles/events/reports that I’ve wanted to highlight. So, here goes. IEM Goes Mainstream So much gets posted on Midas Oracle that it’s easy to miss some juicy bits. This one, about the IEM running prediction markets on who will be [...]
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