RE: Senators Denounce Policy Analysis Markets

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 22:19:30 MDT

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    --- Spike <spike66@comcast.net> wrote:

    >
    > I showed the story around the office and saw something
    > that I am at a loss to explain. There was about an
    > evenly divided opinion, but the for/against axis
    > went roughly along the conservative/liberal faultline.
    > Can anyone offer an explanation to why the rightwing
    > and upwing types tended toward favoring the idea and
    > the others opposed?

    Because betting or futures markets are crass commercialism, propounded
    by evil running dog capitalists..... liberals don't understand how
    futures markets work. They just puts their money into their 401k and
    depend on the smart people to make them money...

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    Mike Lorrey
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