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Futures Contract on Pentagon Executive

Ronald Bailey | 7.30.2003 12:44 PM

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The current events section of Tradesports.com is now offering a futures contract on how long Admiral Poindexter will stay in his current job. Poindexter was spearheading the Policy Analysis Markets project so loathed by numbskull Senators. Wanna make some money Senators?

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Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.

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