Lynne Kiesling Lately in the KP household we’ve been marveling even more than usual at the extent to which technology has beneficially transformed our lives. Yesterday we had a macabre, earthy sharing of stories, while visiting with friends and meeting their new daughter, about 19th-century doctors not realizing a woman was pregnant with twins, or …
Michael Giberson Tom Fowler, at the Houston Chronicle‘s NewsWatch: Energy blog, reports on the latest CFTC energy market manipulation case: The alleged manipulation occured during the so-called “Platts window,” a 30 minute interval at the end of the trading day when the energy publishing firm Platts pulls data used to set prices for other foreign …
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Michael Giberson Is the most actively traded Inkling Market focused on a single party’s primary in a special election to be held to replace a retiring member of Congress? More active than any other political market on Inkling, more than baseball, more than football, and even more than American Idol. A few markets have more …
Michael Giberson Major League Baseball has entered into a revenue-sharing agreement with StubHub, an online ticket resale marketplace now owned by eBay. Radio news program Marketplace had a brief story that was far too breezy in the introduction for my tastes: Scott Jagow: In pro sports, ticket scalping is — let’s face it — part …
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Michael Giberson There’s been a lot written about game-fixing in basketball lately, but not much about an obvious game fixing episode in World Cup Quidditch. That is to say, not much written about quidditch match fixing until now. Phil Birnbaum fills the gap at the Sabermetric Research blog. And then there was the suspicious episode …
Michael Giberson PJM Interconnection filed plans today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking to reorganize the market monitoring function at the regional power market and transmission system operator. The proposal was filed in the form of a Offer of Settlement intended to resolve two complaints filed against PJM earlier this year. The proposal would …
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Lynne Kiesling Mike and I are on the same wavelength this morning; his earlier post about the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger case came right as I was reading this morning’s paper. Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about the expert testimony for both sides (WF/WO and FTC) of the case (sub. required). Of course, …
Lynne Kiesling I can already tell today will be a silly day … first, serious props to Glenn Reynolds for his his subtle Monty Python joke in this post about moose lawsuits, referring to this post of Eugene Volokh’s. Then, after finding this TV column from Slate last week, I am thrilled-thrilled-thrilled to find out …
Michael Giberson Or are Whole Foods and Wild Oats just two little fish in the big sea of the grocery business? The WSJ’s The Numbers Guy contemplates the issues surrounding a survey of shoppers introduced into the current FTC case seeking to block the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger. The FTC argues that the survey is …
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