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Subjekt: Political Futures Trading

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Some people don't know this, but it is possible to bet money that a certain political even will happen. In this "futures markets" people can bet on whether a certain event will occurr and they get paid according to whether their prediction was right or not.

https://www.intrade.com/

Initially these people wanted to allow betting on terrorist attack, assasinations and other other catastrophic events.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market

If the people at Darpa had had their way, today people could bet on assassinations or presidents around the world. The congressmen who came out against this aberration did the right thing. Can you imagine people betting money on whether some prominent individual would be killed?