Betting on Terrorism

Griff · 07-29-2003, 01:02 PM

This struck me as an odd use of market forces.

The latest brainchild of a contentious Pentagon program — an online gambling parlor that allows anonymous investors to make money predicting assassinations and terrorist attacks — is drawing fire from Capitol Hill.

They were going to use a program called Futures Markets Applied to Prediction to try to assess terrorist threats. tw could profit from his Manhattan scenerio or bin Laden could lay a bet and blow something up. hmmm... maybe it was just a sting operation.

07-29-2003, 01:02 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Betting on Terrorism This struck me as an odd use of market forces. The latest brainchild of a contentious Pentagon program — an online gambling parlor that allows anonymous investors to make money predicting assassinations and terrorist attacks — is drawing fire from Capitol Hill. They were going to use a program called Futures Markets Applied to Prediction to try to assess terrorist threats. tw could profit from his Manhattan scenerio or bin Laden could lay a bet and blow something up. hmmm... maybe it was just a sting operation. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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