The New Yorker's James Surowiecki discovers the gambling addict's holy grail: an exchange that will let you bet on anything. The exchanges, trade shares in "decision" marketsi.e., the outcome of the next Presidential election, whether priests will be allowed to marry by 2005, when physicists will discover a Higgs boson.
Decisions, decisions [New Yorker]
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