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Oil Inspired Information Design

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design

All the hubbub about oil prices has brought out some interesting charts and infographs. Here are just a few of them. If you can think of others, please suggest them. First, the price of Light Sweet Crude from 2004 to present A neat infographic from the NYTimes showing the relationship between demand and price, or [...]

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US Carbon Prices In Chicago

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design

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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Of Spreads and Predictions in Oil PMs

October 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Prediction Markets

I was listening to a podcast this morning on public radio’s Marketplace about the difficulty experts have predicting future economic numbers (in this case, specifically, the price of oil). Not once did they mention prediction markets, despite experts freely admitting that they weren’t very good at making predictions. It made me think: how far do [...]

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Public Prediction Markets Heuristic Review: Inkling

May 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Prediction Markets

Who Is … Inkling is another recent entrant into the public prediction market field. Already generating a lot of interest and commentary in the Prediction Market community, Inkling does something that appears (at least to me) to be very novel. As they say in their Q&A: “Inkling has been designed to be easy enough for [...]

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