Iowa Electronic Markets

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Just curious if anybody else had ever heard of this.  It's like Intrade, but a smaller version, and the legal status of it here in the U.S. isn't in question.

It's pretty interesting: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/index.cfm

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Just curious if anybody else had ever heard of this.  It's like Intrade, but a smaller version, and the legal status of it here in the U.S. isn't in question.

It's pretty interesting: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/index.cfm

Yep. I recall hearing about it in the context of the 1996 Presidential Election.

It predates Intrade by quite some time.

[The Mikado]

Followed them during the 2004 primaries.

[phk]

Wish these political futures markets had more liquidity.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I'm thinking about trying this out.

[Free Trade is managed by the invisible hand.]

do you think this things could create a speculative bubble?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

do you think this things could create a speculative bubble?

With a limit of $500, no.

[muon2]

Nothing new about this. It's been around since before the World Wide Web. Intrade and other prediction markets borrowed from some of their early work.