If the server was overloaded, the likely reason is the Intrade betting action was furious yesterday.
The Intrade price for "U.S. will go into recession in 2008" is 70.
This took us all rather by surprise last night: Intrade has shut up shop.
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In order to trade on Intrade you had to deposit real live money with them.
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InTrade is closely monitored by political pundits who frequently report its prices as news.
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Only a month ago, the price of a U.S. recession was 75 on Intrade.
We were just really getting to the intellectually interesting part of Intrade as well.
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That's why Intrade hopes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will take up its petition for oversight.
Liquidity is of course better on Intrade since it has been around much longer.
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Two-thirds of Intrade bettors think that and probably 99% of journalists and all Democratic office seekers do, too.
What Intrade was doing was giving us very interesting insights as to whether this all was actually correct.
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Ann Hathaway can exhale, and expect to go home with the Best Supporting Actress award according to Intrade.
Now, according to an Associated Press report, Intrade has added the outcome of the Enron trial to its contracts.
Intrade bettors give Mac less than a one-in-ten chance of winning the election.
But some of the Intrade markets were about something with an objective answer.
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For a second opinion, take a look at the bettors on Intrade.
Intrade also has markets on the outcome of the election in every state.
Dublin-based futures market Intrade creates unorthodox investment contracts based on events as diverse as projecting Oscar winners and political upheaval.
With his reputation for bungling important things secure, Gensler now turns to fringe players on the financial scene like InTrade.
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With sincere regret we must inform you that due to circumstances recently discovered we must immediately cease trading activity on www.intrade.com.
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In recent years, it became much more, as the media realized that the odds on Intrade could often predict the future.
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Intrade bowed to pressure from regulators on November 26th and announced that it was closing its doors to U.S. bettors.
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If he does that, Romney might just prove the Intrade bettors wrong.
Intrade is cutting off its US customers after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued the Ireland-based company for violating US law.
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"Less than full legal transparency for our members does impact their confidence and therefore the liquidity in certain markets, " says Intrade's Delaney.
Online trading platform Intrade has ceased all trading activity pending an investigation.
This week, online market-predictions firm Intrade, working with Forbes.com, opened a market for people to place bets on the next head of Yahoo!
Dublin-based Intrade allows users to place bets on future events by buying and selling contracts in a similar way to the financial markets.
As winter turned to spring the price of a U.S. recession on the Irish betting Web site, Intrade, had gotten as high as 75.
According to the website Intrade (via LA Observed) Palin has only an 11% chance of being nominated, down from 20% a few days ago.
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